{"id":10668,"date":"2013-05-21T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2013-05-21T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:37:55","slug":"high-speed-marine-highway-between-trivandrum-and-kasaragod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/high-speed-marine-highway-between-trivandrum-and-kasaragod\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed marine highway between Trivandrum and Kasaragod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a decade ago, Kerala government mooted the 507-kilometre expressway connecting Kerala&#8217;s southern and northern tips and recently a high speed rail corridor. Now Kerala government has come up with another fancy project &#8211; a <strong>high speed marine highway from Vizhinjam to Kasaragod.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a title=\"Trivandrum Monorail project may get Cabinet approval tomorrow\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-monorail-project-may-get-cabinet-approval-tomorrow\/\">Trivandrum Monorail project developements<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news is unlike the High Speed Rail Corridor and Express Highway proposals, which cost Rs 6,400 crore (initial estimates) and Rs 120,000 crore, the new project is expected to cost Rs 150 crore only. The fund would be allocated over a period of 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>High speed marine highway comes with many advantages such as reducing the congestion on the roads, fuel consumption and pollution. The project plans to connect Trivandrum with Kasaragod with high-speed passenger ships which can achieve a speed of 40km\/hr, through the coastal waters. The ships will be able to cover the entire distance by water almost as much time as it would take by train. Initially, the project will be used for tourism and the government intervention would be limited to select services to demonstrate economic viability of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The main investment for the high speed marine highway will be for acquisition of high-speed ships, which costs about Rs 10 crore. According to the current plan, five ships will be bought in the beginning, &#8211; two of them will be operated on Trivandrum-Kozhikode route, two on Trivandrum- Kochi route and one in Kochi-Kollam route. Already, there are 3 high-speed passenger ships &#8211; MV Parali, MV Cheriyapani and MV Valiyapani &#8211; operating between Kozhikode and Lakshadweep.<\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Natural History Museum in Trivandrum Renovated\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/natural-history-museum-in-trivandrum-renovated\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum in Trivandrum Renovated<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Land acquisition proves to be the trickiest part of any such project. Express Highway project was aborted to the same problem while High Speed rail corridor is still in limbo because of protests from people. Since, high speed marine highway doesn\u2019t need any significant land acquisition, it is expected that the project will take off soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a decade ago, Kerala government mooted the 507-kilometre expressway connecting Kerala&#8217;s southern and northern tips and recently a high speed rail corridor. Now Kerala government has come up with another fancy project &#8211; a high speed marine highway from Vizhinjam to Kasaragod. Read: Trivandrum Monorail project developements The good news is unlike the High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,452],"class_list":["post-10668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-kerala","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}