Vehicle movement on the Ganapathy stretch of Sathyamangalam Road will become easier if the Coimbatore Corporation has its way.
The civic body is planning to remove encroachments on Old Sathy Road to make the stretch one-way, from south to north and convert the existing Sathyamangalm Road stretch one-way to allow vehicle movement in the opposite direction.
Confirming the move, a senior Corporation official said that on Old Sathy Road were 70-odd houses that had encroached upon the road space for over three decades now. The civic body would relocate the families that lived there in the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board tenements that were under construction in Keeranatham.
The relocation would happen in the next two months once the Board completed the construction.
Thereafter, the civic body would demolish the houses to widen the road.
This would be the Phase Two of the Corporation’s efforts to widen the road, said Mayor P. Rajkumar.
The Phase One was the demolition of a temple in full and a portion of another near the Ganapathy Bus Terminus.
Phase Three would be removing encroachments in Moore Market area.
This involved demolishing a few buildings and to this effect the civic body was in talks with the building owners, said the officials.
The Corporation had also passed a resolution to construct a flyover at the Maniakarampalayam Road Junction on Sathyamangalam Road. This would further ease traffic flow, the Mayor added.
