TVS tollgate to get vertical garden as part of airport facelift

Trichy Corporation has proposed a beautification drive at TVS tollgate and Pudukottai Road, which is considered as the gateway to access Trichy International Airport. The civic body has obtained the required permission from stakeholders including state and national highways to raise a vertical garden facility with creepers to reduce the carbon emissions as well as give a green welcome for tourists entering the city.


Trichy city witnesses at least three lakh floating population on an average on any given day, as it serves as a hub for roadways, railways and airways. With tourists and visitors heading to central districts through the city, Trichy’s gateways, including TVS tollgate reels under the menace of open urination and posters spamming the walls. TVS tollgate, a junction where vehicles heading to Thanjavur, Pudukottai, Chennai, Madurai and Trichy meet, the pillars of flyover on Chennai-Madurai national highway and also the compound wall of SETC bus depot diagonally opposite to Jamal Mohamed College stink due to poor sanitation and lack of support among public.

Recently, based on representations made by the city development group, corporation has planned to convert the vacant place adjacent to SETC depot into a roadside garden. “The land very next to the SETC depot is unutilised owing to which sanitation issues have been cropping up. We have planned to grow decorative plants and greenery in the vacant space to appease visitors which would prevent open urination,” corporation commissioner N Ravichandran said.

Civic body has also been planning to approach the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and district administration for growing a vertical garden on the pillars of TVS tollgate flyover connecting Chennai - Madurai national highway. “At least 4,500 passengers visit Trichy International Airport every day. Such footfall would also attract the friends and families of air users to send off and receive them.

TVS tollgate being the gateway for airport should be beautified to project Trichy as clean and green city among incoming visitors,” H Ubaidullah, independent aviation analyst said.
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