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The constrictive railway underpass astatine K.K. Nagar connected Chennimalai Road, built during the pre-Independence era, turns chaotic during greeting and evening highest hours, and residents and motorists person reinstated the long-standing request for its widening astatine the earliest.
With the enlargement of Corporation limits, accelerated urbanisation, connectivity to the Erode Outer Ring Road, and the beingness of galore acquisition institutions and commercialized establishments, the roadworthy has go 1 of the busiest successful the city. However, the underpass is truthful constrictive that lone 1 autobus tin walk astatine a time. Seepage from the Lower Bhavani Project (LBP) canal and h2o stagnation during the rainy play further hinder pedestrian and vehicular movement.
“The underpass is utilized passim the time by schoolhouse vehicles, commercialized vehicles, and backstage commuters, particularly two-wheelers,” said V. Parameeswaran of Rangampalayam. Congestion during highest hours has go a perennial occupation that remains unaddressed.
Heavy vehicles, including lorries and tourer buses headed to the Chennimalai temples, cannot usage the underpass owed to height-restriction bars installed astatine the entrance. “The underpass was built 80 years agone for bullock carts and a fistful of vehicles. Now, thousands walk done it daily, and widening is essential,” said K. Damodaran, a nonmigratory of K.K. Nagar. If structural constraints forestall widening, helium suggested that a caller underpass oregon a obstruction overbridge beryllium constructed. “Traffic measurement keeps expanding arsenic this roadworthy links to the ringing road,” helium added.
Motorists person urged the Highways Department to behaviour a postulation survey, measure conveyance density, and taxable a connection to resoluteness the issue. They pass that immoderate hold volition worsen the situation, arsenic students, office-goers, workers and pilgrims are already severely inconvenienced. A elder authoritative of the Highways Department told The Hindu that a connection has been submitted to the Railways for establishing 2 further vents.
