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20: 162:, one of the busiest and most important junction in city of Kochi. It is one of the emerging commercial highstreet with several leading retail stores and many luxury 5 star classified hotels operating like the Olive Downtown, Radisson Blu etc. The Kaloor-Kadvanthara road starts from this junction, which is the shortest route to Kaloor. The GCDA headquarters and the statue of Sahodharan Ayyappan are located here. Entrances to posh residential areas like Panampilly Nagar, Giri Nagar, GCDA Nagar starts from here. A secondary junction called Kochukadavanthara, Rajiv Gandhi International Indoor sports complex, " 82:
Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) & Rajiv Gandhi International Indoor Stadium are located along this road at Kadavanthra. It is a four lane city road with median separating the two carriageways. The road is one of the oldest road of the city and covers a distance of 3.2 KM. The road is
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for attending the Annual Durbar at the Durbar Hall. The original road terminated at Chitoor Road near Valanjambalam from where it connect to Durbar Hall Grounds. Later it was extended to MG Road, when the Britishers constructed in year 1926. A connecting road from MG Road to Foreshore road was built
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The original road was just a single lane as there was no cars other than those belonging to Royal family. In year 1936, the road was relaid into 2 lane traffic, which remains even today. As the city grew, many commercial establishments started in this stretch which increased the traffic. Moreover,
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S.A. Road was earlier known as Tripunithura Road that was built by Kochi Royal Maramattu (PWD) Department in year 1863 when the capital of Kochi Kingdom was shifted to Tripunithura. The road was constructed to facilitate the King's annual procession to
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when the latter was opened in the year 1988. In 1962 the stretch from Foreshore Road to Vyttila was renamed as S.A Road as this part came under Corporation of Cochin whereas the remaining stretch went to Thrippunithura Municipality.
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residential areas along with growth of Vyttila Junction made the road terribly congested heavy traffic. With less availability of land on both sides, land acquisition became extremely difficult.
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decided to go ahead with forcible land acquisitions, thereby the stretch from South Overbridge to Vyttila was able to relay into 4 lane road with some areas still under construction.
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in the city of Kochi, which run in east-west direction and the shortest road connecting the two main iconic junctions in the city. The road connects the
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Kochi's high-end housing colonies are all branched out from this arterial road such as
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S.A.Road along with M.G.Road are the two main arterial CBD roads connected with the
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built over picturesque Chilavanoor Lake, one of the important riverfront area.
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is one of the most important and the second main arterial road of CBD
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St. Mary's Syro-Malabar Catholic Cathedral Basilica, Ernakulam
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St. George Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church, Edappally
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Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
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Road that connects to Tripunithura, hence termed as the
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International Container Transshipment Terminal, Kochi
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Junction & Hub in east and continues further as
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city (after the M.G Road); it is supposed to be the
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Index


Kochi
MG Road
Vyttila
Tripunithura
Kochi Metro Rail
Vyttila Mobility Hub
Panampilly Nagar
Sahodaran Ayyappan
Ernakulam
Kadavanthra
Corporation of Cochin
Vyttila
Elamkulam
Elamkulam
Kadavanthra
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Kochi
Marine Drive
Mattancherry Palace
Hill Palace
Durbar Hall Ground
Ariyittuvazhcha Kovilakam

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