THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A special cabinet meet here Monday announced several measures for road safety in the wake of gas tanker tragedy in Kannur.Briefing on Cabinet decisions, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Rs 2.15 crore has been sanctioned to take up the land of the railways to widen the Chala Bypass Road, where the tragedy occurred.
A sum of Rs 10 crores have been sanctioned to widen the Thazhechovva-Puthiyatheruvu Road immediately using the available land.
Instruction has already been given to remove the divider at the starting of the bypass. New measures will be brought in. Sanction has been accorded to prepare estimate for straighten the dangerous curves in the Chala-Nerechovva stretch. Street lights and i-max lights will also be placed. Kannur and Thalassery Bypasses will be completed at the earliest. Immediate steps would be taken to develop the NH 17 and 47 as four lane tracks.
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