Edappally underpass can still be built: Sreedharan

With the fear rife that traffic congestion at the Edappally Junction will worsen following the opening of three flyovers in the Aroor-Edapally NH Bypass during the past two months, technocrat E. Sreedharan, has reiterated his demand for an underpass linking the bypass with Edappally-Guruvayur NH corridor. “The DMRC had, while readying the foundations for the Edappally flyover, maintained sufficient gap so that an underpass could be built perpendicular to the flyover. The only precaution that ought to be taken is that the underpass should not encounter water logging during rains. Foolproof methods are available for this,” he said. The situation at Edappally is such that the flyover built beneath the metro viaduct in the east-west direction takes much fewer vehicles than the road corridor that links NH Bypass with the NH that leads to Guruvayur. This resulted in traffic planners and Kochiites saying that the flyover ought to have been built in the perpendicular direction.