S.A Road: Difference between revisions

'''Sahodaran Ayyappan Road''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/13/stories/2006051327750300.htm |title=The Hindu : Kerala / Kochi News : Widening of Sahodaran Ayyappan Road delayed |website=www.hindu.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309201545/http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/13/stories/2006051327750300.htm |archive-date=9 March 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> popularly known as '''S.A Road''' is one of the most important and the second main arterial road of CBD [[Kochi]] city{ (after the M.G Road},); it is supposed to be the '''busiest and most congested road ''' in the city of Kochi , which run in east-west direction and the shortest road connecting the two main iconic junctions in the city. The road connects the [[Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kochi|MG Road]] in west with [[Vyttila]] Junction & Hub in east and continues further as [[Tripunithura]] Road that connects to Tripunithura, hence termed as the '''back bone road''' of Kochi.

S.A.Road along with M.G.Road are the two main arterial CBD roads connected with the proposed[[Kochi Metro|Kochi Metro Rail]] and moving straight to Vytilla[[Vyttila Mobility Hub{]], biggestwhere transport hub and junction inthree Statemodes of Kerala},wheretransport three mode{(rail, water& and road} of transport )converge &and diverge, hence making it one of the most expensive and affluent areas in the city and Statestate of Kerala.

Kochi's high-end housing colonies are all branched out from this arterial road likesuch as [[Panampilly Nagar]], ,Giri Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, and Jawahar Nagar. etc, it is a commercial high street with Hospitals,Banks & 5 star classified Luxury Hotels{Olive Downtown,Radisson Blu, etc}, enhancing the road's importance is its easy access to the city downtown railway station (Ernakulam Junction Railway Station).

In year 2000, the [[Corporation of Cochin]] decided to go ahead with forcible land acquisitions, thereby the stretch from South Overbridge to Vyttila was able to relay into 4 lane road with some areas still under construction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://reinventingcochin.blogspot.com/2008/06/traffic-and-transport-in-cochin.html|title = REINVENTING COCHIN: Traffic and Transport in Cochin|date = 11 June 2008}}</ref>

* '''[[Vyttila]] Junction''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/22/stories/2008072261330300.htm |title=The Hindu : Kerala / Kochi News : Vytilla junction needs widening, flyover |website=www.hindu.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725055050/http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/22/stories/2008072261330300.htm |archive-date=25 July 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> from where SA Road starts in the east. Vyttila Junction is the largest junction in Kerala, built in 1997 by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) as part of the NH 47 bypass road.