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In a determination aimed astatine bringing alleviation to pedestrians, the Highways Department volition conception a ft overbridge (FOB) astatine the Madhya Kailash junction successful Adyar.
The installation was planned erstwhile the connection for the flyover astatine the junction was drawn up. An FOB connected Rajiv Gandhi Salai adjacent the junction was dismantled to facilitate the operation of the flyover.
The plan of the 127-m-long and 5.5-m-wide pedestrian installation is being vetted by experts from IIT-Madras. Sources successful the Highways Department said the junction witnesses 1,510 pedestrians per hr during unreserved hour, which means astatine slightest 10,000 pedestrians transverse it each day.
“People find it precise hard to transverse the roadworthy since postulation is rather dense connected some the arterial roads. If the postulation constabulary are present, they halt the vehicles to let the radical to transverse the road. Otherwise, we are astatine the mercy of motorists,” said Surendra, who often travels to Taramani.
The FOB would let pedestrians adjacent KV CLRI School to scope Kasturibai Nagar MRTS station, oregon get to the autobus halt adjacent Madhya Kailash temple connected Rajiv Gandhi Salai, oregon locomotion to the autobus halt adjacent the Regional Labour Institute connected Sardar Patel Road. All 3 entry/exit points volition person escalators and elevators.
An authoritative root said they had written to the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority, seeking support to link the FOB with the MRTS station.
