NH45 vs ECR
I don’t understand why the Chennai city crowd is fascinated with the ECR (East Coast Road). A road with a toll of Rs.45 even for a short distance, a road without a median (when most highway accidents in the country happen due to head-on collision that also causes the maximum casualities)/service lane/pedestrian crossing, a road with single lane each way which when combined with the absence of median should make driving in the night nightmarish pales in comparison to the national highway 45 (extension of the GST road) that almost runs parallel to it.
As we found out last weekend, driving on NH 45 till Tindivanam is an absolute pleasure after Singaperumal koil. It is a two-lane one side road with ample and green median and the road meanders through some beautiful scenery of hills and lakes that gives one a feeling of driving somewhere in the US. In case one travels the entire stretch of the road which is about 150kms, the total toll (at two different places) works out to be Rs.40 one way. I sincerely recommend this road to the drive-loving public of Chennai. There’s of course one sore point - to get to the beautiful stretch of the road that I described, you need to tackle the traffic till Tambaram and after which might be one of the reasons why ECR is more popular.
- Trips | Time: 8:49:09 PM (UTC+8)
