Even as a 15-km elevated highway is being built in the Aroor-Thuravur NH 66 corridor, and a six-lane highway is being built in the Edappally-Muthakunnam NH 66 stretch, uncertainty prevails over the plight of an elevated highway that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) proposed on the Edappally-Aroor NH 66 Bypass.
This comes amid fears that the NH Bypass will become a choke point for vehicles from across the State that pass through the corridor.
Official sources said the 16-km Edappally-Aroor stretch, most of which passed through Kochi city and carried a whopping one lakh passenger car units (PCUs) daily, needed a six or eight-lane elevated highway. This is mainly because it would be tough to widen the congested and heavily built up Edappally-Vyttila four-lane stretch, where traffic hold ups are the norm.
