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After the foot-over-bridge (FOB) adjacent Periyar autobus basal was demolished successful 2012, it is the crook of the subway connected Panangal Road adjacent Government Rajaji Hospital to springiness mode for roadworthy widening.
While the FOB had remained unutilised for 14 years earlier it was brought down, the subway had been rendered useless for astir 25 years since its commissioning.
Both the facilities were aimed astatine providing harmless transition for pedestrians to transverse the arterial roads. However, mediocre patronage from the pedestrians led to their demolition.
The entrance/exit structures of the subway had to beryllium locked aft it became a den for anti-social elements. The structures had occupied bully information of the carriage mode connected either sides.
Now, arsenic portion of the operation of a immense roundabout astir Muthuramalinga Thevar statue, the agelong of Panangal Road betwixt Goripalayam junction and main entranceway of the Government Rajaji Hospital is being widened.
The roadworthy is apt to beryllium widened for much than 15 feet for astir 250 metres.
“Since the vehicles coming from Tamukkam broadside request to instrumentality a escaped near crook towards Panangal Road, widening of the roadworthy would bash distant with the contiguous bottleneck,” an technologist of the Highways Department said.
This would guarantee creaseless question of ambulances carrying patients to the GRH.
A caller tempest h2o drainage would besides travel up on the roadworthy other to the GRH.
The roadworthy widening enactment would apt beryllium completed by April erstwhile the full enactment of Goripalayam flyover was scheduled for completion.
