VISAKHAPATNAM: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that the government is looking into the expansion of the Anakapalle to Diwancheruvu stretch in Rajahmundry via the Annavaram section of the road, through expanding the existing four-lane highway into a six-lane one.
The Union minister was replying to YSRC Rajya Sabha MP V Vijayasai Reddy and a similar request from Anakapalle MP B V Satyavathi.
Vijayasai Reddy in his letter to the Union minister said the national highway was constructed in four lanes in 2004 under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model. If the target of the traffic exceeds 40,000 passenger car unit (PCU), which is a measure of the impact that a mode of transport has, then the project is eligible to be upgraded to six lanes. Presently, traffic on the Anakapalle to Annavaram stretch is 42,215 PCU.
B V Satyavathi and Vijayasai Reddy urged the Union minister to take up expansion work on the highway.
If traffic on the highway exceeds 40,000 passenger car unit (PCU), a project is eligible to be upgraded to six lanes. Currently, traffic on one stretch exceeds this limit
