The 17-km Container Road in Kochi in Kerala will be renovated and safety measures improved by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under a ₹129.5-crore project.
This is the first major renovation of the national highway (NH) corridor that was commissioned in 2015 to provide direct connectivity from Angamaly-Edapally NH 544 to the Vallarpadam Container Transhipment Terminal. Service roads totalling 10.4 km too will be renovated as part of the renovation works, it is learnt.
The Container Road has a total of 11 major bridges, a minor bridge, a bridge built by GIDA and 35 culverts. The proposed renovation comes at a time when motorists had been complaining of approach roads to many bridges and culverts sinking, which NHAI officials termed as a “natural phenomenon” during the first few years since the road was reclaimed from backwaters and other waterbodies. The NH stretch also has five pedestrian underpasses, two vehicle underpasses, five major junctions and five minor junctions.
