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Avinashi Road

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.

An office building in Avinashi Road, Coimbatore

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

The now defunct Radhakrishna Mills gate, once a major employer in Peelamedu, Coimbatore

Major Hotels

Railway Stations

Airport

Major Landmarks

Parks & Recreation

    • VOC Park Grounds
    • Coimbatore Zoo

Research Institutes

Educational Institutions

Rainbow complements PSG bridge

IT-Parks

  • TIDEL Park Coimbatore
  • Hanudev InfoPark
  • ELCOT IT Park [Under Construction]
  • ELCOT SEZ, Coimbatore

MNC Companies

Other Notable Landmark

  • Anna Statue
  • Passport Seva Kendra
  • PSG Tech skywalk

Shopping

Cinemas

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

Major Flyovers

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.

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