Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday March 01,2016 inaugurated the
Rs. 35-crore flyover that takes off on Poonamallee High Road and lands
on Nelson Manickam Road.
With this, motorists
travelling from the Anna Nagar Arch and Koyambedu side to Nelson
Manickam Road and beyond need no longer wait for the signal.
Soon after
the inauguration through video conferencing, traffic was allowed on the
two-lane, uni-direction 361-metre-long flyover.
This flyover is one of the two L-shaped flyovers that
are being constructed at a cost of Rs. 117 crore at the intersection of
Poonamallee High Road and Anna Nagar 3{+r}{+d}Avenue. The design of the
flyover, work on which began in June 2011, was changed in November 2012
after the State government decided to retain the twin Anna Arches.
“Originally,
the proposal was to demolish them and construct similar arches further,
inside 3{+r}{+d}Avenue. But, the government instead chose to retain the
arches and change the design of the flyover,” said a source in the
Highways Department.
The arches were constructed to
commemorate the platinum jubilee celebrations of former Chief Minister
C. N. Annadurai and inaugurated by the then Chief Minister M. G.
Ramachandran on January 1, 1986.
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