Environmental organisations in Wayanad have urged the government to reinforce and widen the five ghat sections of roads, including the Thamarassery Ghat section of the road on Kozhikode-Kollegal National Highway 766, to the district by using modern technology to tackle traffic holdups, instead of constructing alternative and tunnel roads.
A meeting of the Wayanad Prakruthi Samrakshana Samiti here on Wednesday urged the government to use its pressure on the central government to get forest land to develop the roads.
Though the government was planning to construct a tunnel and trying to materialise many proposed alternative roads, the roads and tunnel would not be a permanent and practical solution to address the issue.
