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As you crook onto Duraisamy Road from North Usman Road successful T. Nagar, you participate a bustling street, lined with shops, that is reasonably good paved and accompanied by due footpaths, barring the occasional breached ones. But arsenic you determination towards the Duraisamy Subway, you are greeted by postulation truthful chaotic that you are forced to inch guardant cautiously and manoeuvre done a maze of vehicles.
This is particularly existent during highest hours and the monsoon season. The subway road, afterall, is infamous for chronic flooding and mediocre maintenance.
What adds to the occupation are the amerciable U-turns taken by motorists coming from the work lanes of the subway road. “Ideally, erstwhile you participate Duraisamy Road from the work lanes to caput toward the Mambalam side, you are expected to spell each the mode up to Saravana Elite, instrumentality a U-turn, and return. But cipher has the time, truthful they extremity up taking a U-turn straight from the work lanes,” says an autorickshaw driver.
This means that postulation often moves astatine a snail’s gait during highest hours — usually from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. connected weekdays. Weekends are nary better, arsenic the thoroughfare sees arsenic chaotic traffic, with T. Nagar being a shopper’s den.
The postulation constabulary should strictly enforce one-ways connected the work roads, truthful that postulation question is not affected arsenic much, said Suresh Rodrigo, a store proprietor successful the area. “Moreover, during highest hours and weekends, customers conflict with parking successful the area,” helium added.
Often, erstwhile dense vehicles specified arsenic ample trucks and lorries walk done the subway road, contempt it being a crammed space, postulation gets disrupted, observed different motorist.
A postulation constabulary personnel, connected information of anonymity, said that U-turns from the work lanes are not permitted. “Since the subway roadworthy lies connected little ground, vehicles thin to dilatory down arsenic they ascend and descend the slope. This whitethorn beryllium wherefore postulation is comparatively slow-moving here, particularly during highest hours,” the unit added.
Flooding woes
The subway roadworthy is successful mediocre condition, with cracks and crevices on its surface. During dense rain, the low-lying agelong floods quickly. Although the h2o is yet pumped out, it causes postulation delays.
The footpaths on the subway roadworthy are besides not conducive for pedestrians, arsenic wires bent from the sides and h2o sometimes leaks from above, said S. Govindarajan, a nonmigratory of the area. While determination is capable lighting astatine night, immoderate sections of the footpaths are broken, with garbage strewn connected the sides, helium added.
K. Elumalai, Councillor of Ward 133, Zone 10, Greater Chennai Corporation, said determination are motors attached to the subway that pump retired h2o during dense rains. The h2o is collected successful a adjacent well. “There are capable drains on the subway road. When the rains are light, the h2o easy seeps done the drains,” helium added.
