Chennai: The long-delayed flyover in Vijayanagar Junction that connects the road from Taramanry with Velacherry By-Pass will be opened to the public by Minister M K Stalin on Monday.
The work at 1,200m flyover began in 2016 and it took five years and costs 186 crore finished.
The state highway department official said various factors contributed to delays.
To start with the project trapped from the acquisition of the land.
Part of the person moved the court and only in June last year, during the locking period, conducted a highway department starting from the court, an official said.
The Flyover has a two-lane carriage with a width of 7.5 meters wide.
This means only one-way traffic can be permitted.
Similar to the second arm size, connect Velacherry with Pallikarani.
It is also planned as a flyover with one-way traffic, the official said.
A local resident, S Kumara King said about 11,500 square land needed to take taste construction.
With the court issued a stay at work, the initial plan to solve it within 24 months of fall.
Then the giant gutter line from nearby residential areas to the Perungudi treatment plant becomes another obstacle, which needs to be harmonized again.
This work takes almost a year.
When these works are complete, locking stops work.
The second arm of the flyover, connecting Velacherry to Pallikarani, measuring 640 meters is expected to be ready at the end of this year.
Kumara King said the two arms could only handle one direction traffic and made that they had not been planned better.
5 years on, 1,200m Flyover in Velachery Opened Today
