The Ministry of Surface Transport is organising an international congress on express highways development in New Delhi, to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, and the proposal is to construct 13,000 km length at a subsidy of Rs 52,000 crore. Kerala does not figure in this bonanza.

According to GCDA chairman K Balachandran, the busiest section of this national highway is between Coimbatore and Thrissur via Palakkad, yet the Government has not provided money to construct new bridges or do four-laning work, though traffic is bound to exacerbate once Nedumbassery airport is commissioned.

He points out that the busy NH bypass leading to Aroor is two-lane, yet no action has been taken to complete the bypass at Alappuzha, Kollam, Attingal and Thiruvananthapuram.

He hasurged MPs, MLAs and the press to highlight this before it is too late.