Honour promises, Tripunithura residents tell KMRL

THE realisation of the Kochi Metro connectivity to Tripunithura has given a complete makeover to the stretch from Vyttila to Tripunithura railway station with the roads getting wider and a couple of old bridges being reconstructed.

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However, the residents are unhappy, as they want the KMRL (Kochi Metro Rail Ltd) to honour a couple of promises it made at the earliest.

These include an open air auditorium or minipark at the widened Pettah Junction and a foot overbridge (FoB), connecting the Tripunithura metro station with the railway station.

"The KMRL had promised to set up either an open air auditorium or a minipark at Pettah once it completed the Pettah SN Junction section. It's been two years since the section was opened, but the promise was not kept," said A B Sabu of the Manaveeyam Cultural Centre, the former chairman of a standing committee of the Kochi corporation.