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To guarantee the information of pedestrians, schoolhouse and assemblage students, and officegoers, dense vehicles volition not beryllium allowed to ply connected the Thirumukkudal span crossed the Palar River successful Kancheepuram territory during highest hours.
A determination to this effect was taken during a gathering of residents, quarry owners, and the police, wherever the request for due lighting was besides emphasised. Trucks volition not beryllium allowed connected the span betwixt 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., and past from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. At slightest 300 trucks usage the span daily.
Salavakkam Inspector T. Balachandran, who listened to the concerns of assorted stakeholders, said that requests for barricades astatine roadworthy turns had already been implemented. “If trucks are recovered speeding oregon carrying further weight, we person told quarry owners that the constabulary volition not hesitate to cod fines of ₹1 lakh,” helium said.
The agelong bridge, notorious for deaths caused by taurus vehicles from adjacent chromatic quarries, has nary lighting, making things much hard for commuters. Residents had staged a protestation past week aft the decease of a 34-year-old mason, S. Sakthivel, who was tally implicit by a truck.
“Almost instantly aft the death, we refused to let dense vehicles carrying M-sand and bluish metallic from section quarries and crushing units. We person been warring for a solution for the postulation issues successful this country caused by the quarries. The drivers are unruly and bash not travel postulation rules,” alleged Harikrishnan, a resident.
Kothandaraman, who owns a quarry, said that quarry owners had agreed to instal solar-powered lights connected the span wrong a month. “We volition besides laic astir 3 km of roads that person been damaged. The quarry owners person decided to cleanable the span connected a regular ground and guarantee that the trucks are covered with tarpaulins to forestall particulate from flying,” helium said.
