A tour of cyclone-battered roads on OMR

The best-laid plans of men and mice often spell awry. Not agelong ago, from assorted sections of OMR, notably the 1 wherever the Sholinganallur junction is located, sluggishness was removed by having them relaid. But immoderate was done has been undone successful a substance of 2 days and 2 nights. These sections person unravelled, leaving roadworthy surfaces uneven, and sluggish vehicular question is backmost — backmost with a vengeance.

And going by however the occupation is being addressed, 1 tin expect the concern to persist. This photojournalist was witnesser to the champion objection of a effect grossly unequal to the problem. On December 6, 2025, astatine the Sholinganallur junction, uneven surfaces were being made level by uncovering “fillers” from nearby, amazingly for different conception of the road, wherever escaped bitumen was found. This is level playing tract of a antithetic kind. Even debris from elsewhere being poured into the pits would not beryllium an injudicious move, and this enactment is adjacent much ill-advised.

In definite sections, old, festering issues person assumed greater sting. At Karapakkam, adjacent Chettinad Hospital, the work lane has been continuing successful a authorities of brokenness for a agelong time. There is nary obstruction betwixt the sevice lane and the carriageway and nary favoritism exists immoderate more. The lane is utilized arsenic if it were an hold of the carriageway. The “wound” connected the lane having been opened wider by Ditwah, this conception has graduated from being an annoyance to an accident-prone spot. A watchman of a backstage enterpise retired determination notes that each time astatine slightest 5 accidents instrumentality spot astatine this spot.

All the Ditwah-inflicted wounds should beryllium tended to; and it has to beryllium done fast.