Railway gate that has remained shut for the past five years
On January 11, 2009, the railway gate adjacent to the road leading to four village panchayats through Lalapettai village was shut permanently. The overhead bridge was completed in 2009 at a cost of Rs 32 crore. Following this, government buses also took different routes to reach their destinations.
Though the overhead bridge helped easy movement of heavy vehicles plying between Kulithalai and Karur along the national highway, the closed railway gate prevented the public from getting immediate access to NH-67 or to the river Cauvery on the other side of the national highway. Ever since its closure, villagers are forced to take a detour for over two to three kilometers through very bad roads to reach the national highway, or to reach the river Cauvery, which flows just 250 meters beyond the railway gate.
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