Work on widening the Old Bypass Road in Vellore from a two-lane stretch to a four- lane stretch has begun to prevent traffic chaos in the town during festival season and to improve connectivity to the Chennai-Bengaluru highway.
Officials of the Department of State Highways, which executes the work, said that traffic on the route would be slow in the coming days because of the widening work. Initially, the work had been taken up near Old Town because of availability of open space along the existing carriageway.
The work is being monitored by R. Prakash, Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE), State Highways (Vellore)
