Avinashi Road
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
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
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- 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
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.