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Ambattur residents person urged authorities to adhd much velocity breakers and medians, peculiarly successful schoolhouse zones, on arterial roads specified arsenic Ambattur-Red Hills Road to guarantee the information of schoolchildren and forestall accidents.
The Ambattur-Red Hills Road serves arsenic a captious nexus to galore areas, including Puzhal, Surapet, Kallikuppam, Kathirvedu and Ambattur OT. With respective fast-developing areas and schools on the stretch, the roadworthy is rapidly transforming into a commercialized hub, adding to the postulation bustle.
Members of the United Welfare Associations, Ambattur, said that the stretch from Oragadam junction to Puzhal is dotted with galore acquisition institutions.
The agelong adjacent Pudur needs velocity breakers and pedestrian signals owed to the information posed by speeding vehicles and dense traffic. S. Suresh, the association’s president, said the roadworthy besides witnessed dense vehicular question from Red Hills.
Many junctions, peculiarly adjacent Pudur, are prone to predominant accidents contempt having ‘school zone’ signboards. However, CTH Road, the different arterial road, had capable velocity breakers to modulate conveyance speed.
The relation and acquisition institutions person been requesting the laying of velocity breakers for 3 years, helium said.
Residents of Ambattur besides stressed the request for a median successful Karukku Main Road and called for interior roads to beryllium relaid astatine the aforesaid level arsenic main roads.
S. Raghuraman, a nonmigratory of Venkatapuram, said the Karukku Main Road, which besides has encroachments, is choked with postulation during highest hours, making adjacent abbreviated commutes instrumentality a minimum of 15 minutes.
“While Murugappa Reddy Street has been re-laid with a raised surface, interior streets successful the locality similar Kanniah Chetty Lane get waterlogged aft a abbreviated spell of rain,” helium said.
Responding to residents’ complaints, Ambattur MLA Joseph Samuel said the request for further velocity breakers and pedestrian crossings would beryllium discussed with the State Highways section and the police. A connection to widen the constrictive Karukku Main Road is besides nether scrutiny by the Greater Chennai Corporation pursuing a caller survey of the stretch.
