“The overwhelming majority of vehicles passing through Vyttila are either turning towards SA Road, Tripunithura, or Kaniyampuzha and Eroor,” notes D. Dhanuraj, Chairman of the Centre for Public Policy Research.

“These traffic movements are funnelled into narrow roads, inevitably creating chronic bottlenecks, while the flyover remains underutilised as it largely caters to inter-district traffic. The present junction design fails to accommodate the dominant east–west traffic flow, which accounts for nearly 80 per cent of the volume at Vyttila.”

Dhanuraj was speaking to The New Indian Express on the planning flaws, institutional misalignment, and possible interventions to ease congestion at the Vyttila flyover junction.

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