Plans afoot to acquire land for 6-lane CTH Road.

As a first step towards making Chennai-Tiruvallur High Road a six-lane facility, the highways department is drafting the land plan schedule for acquiring space along the 22-km-long urban stretch of the road, from Padi to Thiruninravur.

Sources in the department said, of the 13 revenue villages the road runs through, land plan schedule, which contains details of land ownership, is ready for nine villages.

'The road is being expanded and re-laid from end to end, wherever there is space. We have taken over land belonging to the government,' said an official. Crash barriers are being cast in-situ and placed on the road on certain stretches.


THE HINDU