Since this is the only part of the road where the width is less than 12 m on either side of the road, they will need to adjust it and make the width even. Including the metro line, it comes to about 12 m widening on either side.
So earlier they were going to widen it just by 1.5m on either side, but after that they decided to make it wider, after considering the metro rail needs.
Yes Ive also heard the same. This stretch is going to be widened, 4m on each side, to be precise. This decision was taken to enable the kochi metro rail line here a bit too.
Ok so you must have heard about the Banerji Road here in Kaloor. If you have seen the Kaloor-deshabhimani stretch on this road, then you'll know exactly how congested it is. Yes, so its that stretch that they are planning to open up a bit.