CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India is set to eliminate 22 black spots (accident spots) along national highways in Chennai and Madurai regions at Rs 400 crore.
\nOf the 748 black spots on national highways in Tamil Nadu, extending over 6,741km, 487 were identified by the ministry of road transport and highways for removal based on accidents that took place between 2015 and 2018. \u201cWe got the nod to take up permanent rectification of 22 spots at Rs 400 crore as part of ongoing road widening projects in Chennai and Madurai regions. We plan to complete it by the end of October 2022,\u201d said an NHAI official.
\nThe authorities are doing studies on the rest of the accident spots to find area-specific solutions to ensure safety of pedestrians and road users. \u201cWe will take up construction of flyovers, under-passages for public vehicles and cattle and also reduce narrow curves to remove the risk factors and eliminate black spots permanently. This work is aimed at segregating the local traffic and main traffic on national highways. It will be taken up based on suggestions of stakeholders and outcome of the study,\u201d added the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India is set to eliminate 22 black spots (accident spots) along national highways in Chennai and Madurai regions at Rs 400 crore. Of the 748 black spots on national highways in Tamil Nadu, extending over 6,741km, 487 were identified by the ministry of road transport and highways for removal based on accidents that took place between 2015 and 2018. \u201cWe got the nod to take up permanent rectification of 22 spots at Rs 400 crore as part of ongoing road widening projects in Chennai and Madurai regions. We plan to complete it by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}