MESSAGE IN MY WHATSAPP AND THE REPLY

I received the following message in my WhatsApp recently

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I replied

YES/ഉണ്ട്

And wrote:

The Pettah Oruvathilkotta road is nearing completion.  It may become fully functional in about 9 months, I perceive, the way things are moving.

Grateful to you for widening the road.

We know vehicles will be zooming past once it is completed

Here, I feel there had been a lacuna in whittling down the width of the road from the original 22metres to 14 metres.

What we hear is, we don't know if it's true, there had been opposition to the land acquisition for 22 metres width. Then someone high visited the place. He asked to mark a point in the middle of road. He asked to measure 7metres to both the sides of the road and had said that much widening alone is necessary. The road is now 14 metres.

But having witnessed development in the arterial roads of Trivandrum in the past 20 years,  my perception is that this 14metre road will have to be widened further to 22 metres or more as this road would turn out to be the topmost arterial road in Trivandrum in 20 years. 

I know very well your temperament for development. I know very well you wouldn't have agreed for the whittling down of the original plan and perhaps with your vision you would have made it even a little more wider than the original plan

Further it is high time the rail overbridge at Pettah is widened. As it is the bridge is the bottleneck to traffic.

I know no one else can bring it to fruition.

And we need a fly over at Pettah Junction to ease the traffic towards the city and the airport.

For me, I am 75 going on 76. I just hope I will be able to see what I have mentioned become real in my lifetime.