Container Highway nonetheless a dying lure for motorists

The dying of a younger girl, who was run over by a container lorry at Ponnarimangalam on Friday, reveals that the Container Terminal Highway, connecting Kalamassery to Vallarpadam, is but to shed its accident-prone. tag. Liby VK, a senior clerk of the Kochi Company from Varapuzha, was the most recent sufferer in a sequence of accidents which have for lengthy left the 16-km stretch a nightmare for motorists, particularly two-wheeler riders.

Visitors congestion on Goshree bridges, lack of sufficient streetlights and alleged unscientific highway and junction designs are cited by native individuals as the most important causes behind the accidents. Unregulated motion of autos and parking of container lorries alongside the highway add to the issue, they are saying.

“Accidents have been taking place steadily on the stretch however solely deadly ones get public consideration. It’s realized that within the newest incident, which claimed a lady’s life, lack of sufficient mild and Reckless using of container lorries performed a job,” Abhijith John of Nerkazhcha Vedhi, a civic discussion board, says.

“Although streetlights had been put in alongside the highway two months in the past, virtually a decade after the highway was constructed, the stretch between Cheranalloor Junction and Bolghatty Junction stays unlit. The stretch has additionally change into house to a lot of stray canine. The canine soar in entrance of bikes which then skid off,” Mr. John provides.

A 22-year-old youth was killed in 2019 on the highway when he fell off his bike as he tried to evade a sudden crossing stray canine. The youth was run over by a truck entering into the identical course.

The Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has, in the meantime, blamed the Kerala State Electrical energy Board (KSEB) for not offering connection to the streetlights put in by it.

“All lights have been put in by us. The KSEB has sought extra transformers to cost them however it’s not in our scope,” an NHAI supply says.

The KSEB had earlier made it clear that charging your complete fleet of streetlights required round six transformers, of which solely two had been operational. The remaining lights haven’t been charged as the present transformers are already overloaded.