More land being acquired to construct flyovers on CTH Road

Additional land is being acquired for the construction of flyovers at Ambattur OT and Avadi bus depot junctions on the Chennai-Tiruttani High Road (also known as MTH road) from Padi to Thiruninravur. 

The 600-m-long flyovers are likely to be constructed by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) after the Highways Department deposits the amount with them. The CMRL requires additional land to construct the pillars, an official source said. 

The civil cost of each two-lane flyover has been estimated to be ₹70 crore. Around 60% of the land acquisition for the facility at Avadi has been completed. At Ambattur, the process is nearly complete, with the Highways Department awaiting the State government’s administrative sanction for the cost of acquisition. 

Acquisition for the third flyover at the junction of Vanagaram-Ambattur Puzhal Road and CTH Road is yet to be finalised due to an alignment problem. “We do not want to disturb property owners unnecessarily without the alignment being fixed,” an engineer associated with the project said. 

Asked when the work to construct the flyovers would begin, sources in the department said it depended on the CMRL, which would be constructing them, along with their corridor, as the flyovers would be integrated with their pillars. 

Since the Metrorail corridor enters CTH Road near Ambattur, the fourth facility, a grade separator at Korattur, is being constructed by the department. Another source said that the land acquisition was at an advanced stage. 

A resident of Thiruninravur, V. Dwarakanath, said that while residents welcomed the flyovers, they had been waiting for the road to be widened for 20 years now. “Due to the road being narrow, a lot of accidents happen, vehicles move slowly, and pedestrians find it difficult to cross the road,” he said.