The widening of two-lane into four-lane bypasses at eight different locations on the Salem-Ulundurpet National Highway would be completed by 2023-24, said Union road transport and highways ministerNitin Gadkari.
He said the concessionaire already provided necessary road safety and traffic calming measures like road signs, blinkers, bollards, road markings at divergent/ convergent locations, high mast lightings at major junctions and streetlights at built-up areas as per the concession agreement. He promised that additional requirements would be reviewed through a safety consultant and work would be taken up separately.
In a letter to Gadkari in September,Anbumanipointed out that only 97.37 km of the 136km-stretch of Salem-Ulundurpet NH was four-lane while the rest 38.99km was two-lane. He said speeding commuters fail to
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