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Commuters utilizing the occidental conception of the suburban railway person a pugnacious clip accessing a fewer railway stations as rainfall inundates the subways.
Southern Railway constructed the subways with the purpose of providing commuters with a harmless mode to transverse the tracks arsenic good arsenic to entree respective railway stations including Vyasarpadi Jeeva, Perambur, Perambur Loco Works, Annanur, and Tiruvallur. However, immoderate stations, specified arsenic Vyasarpadi Jeeva, Perambur Loco Works, and Annanur, the subways person leaks, which leads to rainwater flooding them and making them unusable.
Raghukumar Choodamani, convenor of the Perambur Neighbourhood Development Forum, said the subway astatine the Perambur Loco Works railway presumption was constructed lone a fewer years agone but got flooded adjacent during airy rain. He alleged that the subway was unopen for respective months to transportation retired repairs aft complaints were sent to the authorities, but was reopened without being restored properly. Commuters complained that during the caller rain, which lashed the metropolis during the past week, the subway erstwhile again got flooded.
Commuters said the subways astatine the Vyasarpadi Jeeva and Annanur railway stations were inundated each northeast monsoon.
Consumer activistic T. Sadagopan said the Annanur railway presumption subway, which was constructed to let commuters to transverse the railway tracks safely, had been flooded for much than a month.
He added that a ample fig of assemblage students had been enactment to hardship arsenic they had to ascent the railings installed successful the subway to transverse it and scope the railway presumption successful Annanur.
A elder authoritative of the Chennai part of Southern Railway said steps had been taken to pump retired the stagnant h2o successful the subway astatine the Perambur Loco Works railway station.
