- Source: Avinashi Road, Coimbatore
Avinashi Road, is an arterial road in Coimbatore, India. Running from west to east, the road starts at Uppilipalayam flyover and ends at Neelambur by-pass junction where it joins NH 544, Beyond Neelambur Junction, the road branches into two, with one traversing southwards to Madukarai to form the Coimbatore bypass while the other continues westwards to Avinashi and beyond to form the National Highway 544. This road connects Coimbatore to its airport and the east and north-east suburbs. The road was an indicator of development as the city of Coimbatore grew up mostly along its eastern and western sides.
Description
Avinashi Road is of the main gateway into the city by road as well as from North and Eastern parts of India. This road is also home for Educational Institutions, Major speciality hospitals, Corporate offices, Information technology parks, Shopping malls and Luxury hotels. Today, this road has turned out to be the most important arterial road in the city.
This road is gateway to vehicles coming from East and North-East Tamil Nadu and bound for Tirupur, Erode, Salem, Vellore, Chennai, Bangalore. The road once part of National highways 544 (Salem - Cochin Highway) is now maintained by the Tamil Nadu Highways Department. In recent years the road was widened into a six-lane. This 16-km stretch of road running diagonally across the city in East West orientation slightly moving North East tangent.a Avinashi road starts from Uppilipalayam flyover near Grey Town area, it passes through the important neighbourhoods of Peelamedu and Chinniampalayam and finally Neelambur.
Places transversed
Anna Silai junction
Chinniampalayam
Civil Aerodrome
Goldwins
Thottipalayam Pirivu
Hope College
Lakshmi Mills junction
Mylampatty
Nava India
Neelambur
Papanaickenpalayam
Peelamedu
SITRA (Airport signal)
Uppilipalayam Flyover
VOC Park & LIC junction
Landmarks on Avinashi Road
= Major Hotels
=The Residency Towers Coimbatore
The Orbis Hotels
Radisson Blu
Le Méridien
Fairfield by Marriott
Ibis Coimbatore City Centre
Jenney's Residency
Grand Regent
Satyam Grand
Park Plaza
GRT Grand
The Arcadia
Railway Stations
Peelamedu Railway station
Airport
Coimbatore International Airport, Peelamedu, Coimbatore
Major Landmarks
= Art Gallery & Museums
=G. D. Naidu Industrial Exhibition
Gedee Car Museum
Kasthuri Srinivasan Art Gallery
= Parks & Recreation
=VOC Park Grounds
Coimbatore Zoo
= Research Institutes
=The South India Textile Research Association a.k.a. SITRA
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management
UMS Technologies Training Centre
= Educational Institutions
=Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School
GRG Matriculation Higher Secondary School
National Model Schools
PSG College of Technology
PSG College of Arts and Science
PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore
PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research
Coimbatore Medical College
Government Polytechnic College
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Dr G R Damodaran College of Science
= IT-Parks
=TIDEL Park Coimbatore
Hanudev InfoPark
ELCOT IT Park [Under Construction]
ELCOT SEZ, Coimbatore
= MNC Companies
=Accenture
Bosch
Capgemini
IBM
Infosys
State Street HCL Services
Tata Consultancy Services
Tech Mahindra
UST Global
Wipro
= Other Notable Landmark
=Anna Statue
Passport Seva Kendra
PSG Tech skywalk
= Shopping
=Fun Republic Mall
= Cinemas
=Cinépolis- 5 Screens
= Textile Mills
=Lakshmi Mills
Radhakrishna Mills
Tirupur Textile Mills
Varadaraja Mills
= Hospitals
=Aravind Eye Hospital
G. Kuppusamy Naidu Memorial Hospital
Kovai Medical Center Hospital (KMCH)
Lotus Eye Care Hospital
PSG Hospitals
= Exhibition Venues
=Padmavathi Ammal Cultural Center
CODDISIA Trade Fair Grounds
= Major Flyovers
=Avinashi Road Expressway, Coimbatore
Avinashi Road flyover
Hope College Flyover
Coimbatore Metro
Coimbatore Metro feasibility study is completed and one of the route planned from Kaniyur through Avinashi road till Ukkadam Bus stand covering 26 km.
References
External links
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