Chennai bypass to be relaid.

Following complaints of uneven surfaces on the Chennai Bypass, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded the contract to relay the road. The ₹30 crore work is likely to commence in March.

The contractor will scrap the top layer of the road (called cold milling in technical parlance) and correct the profile of the road that has six lanes. “The service lanes too would be relaid. The works include marking of the road surface and installation of sign boards,” explained a source in NHAI.

The 32-km-long road connects Tambaram in the south with Madhavaram in the west and is used by motorists proceeding to Porur, Bangalore and Tiruchi. Hundreds of heavy vehicles take this bypass everyday.

THE HINDU