Concern over dilapidated test driving track at Tiruchi RTO

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The damaged two-wheeler trial  way   astatine  Tiruchi West Regional Transport Office successful  Pirattiyur.

The damaged two-wheeler trial way astatine Tiruchi West Regional Transport Office successful Pirattiyur. | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH

The mediocre attraction of the driving trial way astatine the Tiruchi West Regional Transport Office (RTO) successful Pirattiyur is causing interest among those applying for their vehicular licences there.

“We are expected to show our driving skills successful the ‘8’ formation, but the demarcations are overgrown with weeds. The way for two-wheeler tests is besides inaccessible owed to the dense vegetation,” said a driving trial aspirant.

The bureau receives astir 150 driving licence applications for cars and two-wheelers per week, and a smaller fig from dense vehicles.

The Tiruchi West RTO has nether its limits, Woraiyur, Ponmalai, Airport, Thennur, Thillai Nagar, Jamal Mohamed College, K.K. Nagar, Khaja Nagar, and the Unit Office astatine Manapparai.

Visitors to the RTO kick astir the erosion of the tarmac roads wrong the premises, particularly during the caller rainy weather.

On the driving trial track, boards to trial motorists’ skills are astir mislaid to view, arsenic the sections for velocity breakers and U-turns are choked with plants.

When contacted by The Hindu, a elder RTO authoritative said that enactment had begun connected a caller installation wrong the campus, that would usage computerised driving tests.

“We are constructing the installation successful concern with a backstage institution to present computer-aided driving tests, and anticipation to inaugurate it wrong 3 months,” the authoritative said.

He asserted that the existing way was inactive usable contempt its dilapidated condition.

Published - October 29, 2025 06:26 p.m. IST

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