The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has mulled a pair of vehicle underpasses (VUPs) on the northern and southern side of Edappally Junction, in order to solve acute traffic gridlocks at the junction where NH 66 meets NH 544.
These VUPs located about 700 metres away from the junction, will enable unencumbered flow of vehicles along NH 66 in the Vyttila-Varapuzha direction, without motorists having to wait on end for the green signal at Edappally Junction. The NHAI has envisaged one of these VUPs near Oberon Mall and the other on the northern side of the junction, near the LuLu Group office, it is learnt.
The development comes in the wake of criticism that the Edappally flyover ought to have been built along NH 66 and not along NH 544, beneath the metro viaduct where it was constructed, considering that the NH 66 corridor is used daily by a whopping one-lakh passenger car units (PCUs).
