The long-overdue development of alternative roads to divert traffic from the Civil Line Road is in limbo, even as works to widen the road into a 22-m-wide corridor as part of Kochi metro’s 11.20-km Kakkanad extension have gained momentum.
The notoriously narrow and encroached upon roads that run parallel to Civil Line Road are even otherwise chock-a-block with vehicles that are caught on end in traffic hold-ups. Electric and overhead-cable posts that protrude into their tarred carriageway make matters worse.
