NH-66 maintenance works nearing completion

Safety features added on 30-km Vengalam-Ramanattukara stretch

A major portion of the repair work on the 30-km Vengalam- Ramanattukara stretch of the National Highway-66 has been completed in the district giving a big relief to motorists.

Fixing of road reflectors is in on in different stretches to ensure better road safety and avert chances of accidents during the monsoon reason.

“Raised pavement marking on median strips, edge lines and dangerous sections has been fully completed on the route. Only a few filling works on the edges of some short stretches are remaining,” said an official attached to the NH division of the Public Works Department.

He said the maintenance work, including the bitumen concrete surfacing, was completed by the PWD at a cost of Rs.12 crore.

“The only remaining work is the levelling of some of the over-elevated edges, which will be completed at the earliest. We had acute shortage of the required quantity of soil to expedite the work,” he added. For long years, a major stretch of the Vengalam-Ramanattukara stretch of the busy NH was missing the raised pavement marking and sufficient number of reflectors. Motorists had even taken up the issue with various departments as the lack of reflectors troubled them during night driving.