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“Less seen, but much effective” is the maxim echoing crossed modern spaces meant for surviving and moving. Utilities hidden nether surfaces (example: induction stove slipped nether the kitchentop with lone the cooking aboveground staying visible). Utilities extending from surfaces (example: a furniture blending into the partition being pulled down astatine bedtime). Utilities indistinguishable from surfaces (example: Third Street successful Vimala Nagar, a schoolhouse portion wherever the roadworthy itself functions arsenic velocity breaker).
Ever since the Medavakkam conception of Velachery Main Road began to beryllium defined by CMRL enactment much than thing other and the near crook astatine the junction of Semmozhi Salai and Velachery Main Road started providing question down the second roadworthy arsenic restricted arsenic that of a piston successful a cylinder, interior roads gained prominence. They became the overnight celebrities, societal media influencers if you like, with abrupt traffic, often overwhelming them.
In this class of interior roads are those recovered successful Babu Nagar, Vimala Nagar and Neela Nagar successful Medavakkam (under Medavakkam panchayat), caller item marks on commuters’ roadworthy map. Off Medavakkam Mambakkam Main Road, the roads successful these neighbourhoods function somewhat similar a nervus plexus. They are a ganglion of insignificant nerves providing connectivity betwixt the spinal Velachery Main Road and Medavakkam Mambakkam Main Road. The added pounding owed to motorists preferring interior question alternatively than taking a close crook astatine the Semmozhi Salai-Velachery Main Road junction and threading their travel done the U-turn adjacent Jeyachandran Textiles and climbing connected to the Medavakkam flyover towards Tambaram.
Following the battering they received during the 2025 North East monsoon, the roads successful 3 neighbourhoods were relaid, notably Babu Nagar First, Second and Third Main Road. Even then, Third Street successful Vimala Nagar received conscionable a patch-up, being brutally honest, a parody of a patchwork, debris wheeled successful to capable the cracks. Days aft seeing the light, the patchwork began to unravel. The worst portion of the roadworthy happens to beryllium the patchwork carried retired adjacent a school, Saraswathi Vidyalaya and a temple, Sri Chandramouleeswarar Thirukoil.
A schoolhouse portion needs velocity breakers, which person been provided connected Third Street, Vimala Nagar (two neatly laid velocity breakers beryllium connected this street), but these existent velocity breakers are eclipsed by that shade velocity breaker, which is fundamentally the roadworthy being truthful battered that it exerts the powerfulness and power of a velocity breaker connected the vehicular traffic. This non-existent velocity breaker gains prominence aft a downpour, erstwhile this conception of roadworthy opens up further, arsenic it did pursuing the showers of January 25-26, 2026.
While the battered conception slows down traffic, it besides impedes it, making commuting unpleasant, and perchance unsafe too, arsenic motorcyclists tin person a autumn negotiating the potholes. The solution is simple: relay Third Street successful Vimala Nagar the due mode with bitumen topping, doing distant with the shade velocity breaker, but keeping the existent ones.
