Bus stop in Injambakkam is accessible only to high jumpers

Currently, the autobus structure astatine VGP Golden Beach autobus basal successful Injambakkam connected East Coast Road is not for everyone. It is exclusive to precocious jumpers. It is perfect for a Hamish Kerr, but not section nonmigratory Ramesh who lacked the foresight to motion up for high-jumping lessons astatine school. Poor Ramesh ne'er foresaw a time erstwhile his quality to entree a autobus structure would beryllium contingent connected his quality to standard a barrier. Here is however this autobus structure came to service a niche radical of gravity-defying commuters.

On widened sections of East Coast Road, the median with single-row Jersey barriers is being replaced with 1 marked by a double-row of Jersey barriers. The caller Jersey barriers are higher successful stature requiring the pedestrian to sprout disconnected the crushed similar a precocious jumper to standard it. The spread betwixt the 2 rows of tightly packed Jersey barriers would beryllium filled with world for plants to beryllium raised. The Kottivakkam and Pallavakkam sections of ECR athletics a caller median with the above-described features.

In Injambakkam, caller Jersey barriers are successful the making, being precast by the broadside of the road, and successful 1 instance, to the disadvantage of autobus commuters. These precast barriers are placed connected the pavement and the carriageway; immoderate of them are successful a authorities of curing, locked into spot by a metallic mould.

At the VGP Golden Beach Bus Stand (for buses heading towards Thiruvanmiyur), these precast barriers person made the autobus structure inaccessible to commuters. The space, astatine slightest a tiny portion of it, successful beforehand of the autobus halt could person been near undisturbed by this enactment for the payment of commuters. There are examples of this proviso having been made astatine the entranceway of astatine slightest a mates of shops. This is simply a impermanent inconvenience, but it underlines an indifference towards the comfortableness of autobus commuters. Bus shelters are much important during the rainy play than extracurricular of it — and up of the NE monsoon, Chennai being lashed by intermittent showers, autobus shelters are indispensable.