Key Highlights
- Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary has urged the Central Government to construct a greenfield expressway between Talapady in Dakshina Kannada district and Karwar in Uttara Kannada district along the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line.
- | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY Raising the issue under Rule 377 of Lok Sabha (Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business), Mr.
- Poojary said traffic congestion was constantly on the rise on NH 66 in coastal Karnataka.
- Though the highway was made four-lane between Talapady and Karwar under different packages, it was unable to take the increasing volume of traffic.
- Consequently, road accidents and fatalities on the National Highway were also increasing.
