Highways Department takes up repairs on roads damaged during Cyclone Ditwah in Chennai

The Highways Department has taken up the repair of respective roads damaged during Cyclone Ditwah. Of the 654 km of roads nether the department’s power successful the city, potholes person developed connected 109 km of the carriageway.

“We person been moving astatine nighttime and person completed repairs connected 89 km of roads. Waterlogging astatine circumstantial locations and changeless moving of vehicles astatine these spots are a large crushed for this,” said a root successful the Highways Department.

Locations specified arsenic the agelong other the Greater Chennai Corporation Headquarters connected Poonamallee High Road, Mount Poonamallee High Road adjacent Porur, Arcot Road successful Valasaravakkam, VGN Nagar successful Iyyappanthangal, and Thiruneermalai Road successful Nagalkeni person been patched up.

“The patches are tiny oregon large, and successful immoderate places, paver machines person been used. Restoration of the riding aboveground is indispensable to guarantee amended travel of traffic. Many of these damaged points person been affected owed to deficiency of storm-water drains. Water from interior roads travel to roads nether our power owed to the gradient. Though we person installed centrifugal pumps successful galore places, waterlogging inactive happens,” an technologist of the section said.

T. Gunaseelan of Ambattur said repairs had been carried retired adjacent the autobus terminus lone astatine immoderate places. “They should guarantee that waterlogging does not hap connected large roads unless the rainfall is precise heavy. There are inactive stretches without storm-water drains. The section should person constructed drains successful susceptible locations considering the information that with planetary warming we are getting much rainy days with heavier rain,” helium said.

A contractor said unless repairs were undertaken, roads would stay non-motorable. “In a metropolis that faces monsoons regularly, potholes cannot beryllium avoided. We lone person to beryllium prepared to instrumentality up repairs the infinitesimal rainfall stops,” helium added.