Vellore To Tirupati: Road Condition


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Planning road trip to Tirupati from Salem in January 2022. When we drove down last time in 2019, road work was underway in stretch between Vellore to Tirupati making it very painful. Since it is almost 2 years now presume work should have been completed now. Have a few queries:

1. Can recent commuters or locals comment on the road condition and how long would it take to cover this stretch?
2. Where should we get off the highway (via Chandragiri or continue in highway till Tirupati)?
3. Any suggestions on good hotels for vegetarian lunch
 
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Planning road trip to Tirupati from Salem in January 2022. When we drove down last time in 2019, road work was underway in stretch between Vellore to Tirupati making it very painful. Since it is almost 2 years now presume work should have been completed now. Have a few queries:

1. Can recent commuters or locals comment on the road condition and how long would it take to cover this stretch?
2. Where should we get off the highway (via Chandragiri or continue in highway till Tirupati)?
3. Any suggestions on good hotels for vegetarian lunch
We travelled last week in this stretch based on which sharing updates which could be useful for other commuters of this stretch:
# In terms of duration it took us in around 2 hours to cover this stretch - but road condition is patchy in few places. While Chittoor to Tirupati is mostly done and 6 lane, Chittoor / Vellore stretch - part of it is only 2 lane and part of it multi-lane (concrete) and still work in progress in some places. Nett-nett, if roads were better we could have saved another 15 - 30 min of time.
# Hotels - Except for some good hotels like Moti Mahal near to Tirupati we didn't see much options enroute. CCD at Chittoor was very poorly maintained and very less options to eat - we just picked a can of cookies in return for using washrooms.

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Planning to repeat the trip by early June - Coimbatore to Tirupati. Though I don't expect full completion of Vellore - Chittoor stretch, especially at stretches where land acquisition hope they made at least some progress. Coimbatore to Vellore is a breeze any day except for some bottlenecks near Salem & super busy Krishnagiri - Salem stretch.
 
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Any one recently did this stretch between Vellore to Tirupati? Is it fully completed and any impact due to recent heavy rains?
 

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