Motorists complain of poor lighting on OMR; TNRDC to install lights

Motorists are complaining that determination is insufficient thoroughfare lighting connected respective portions of the arterial Rajiv Gandhi Salai besides known arsenic Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR). The work lanes that person been severely damaged hardly get immoderate airy from the absorption lamps installed by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL). 

With radical driving connected the incorrect broadside successful the work lanes and pedestrians trying to find immoderate harmless space, it is hard for conveyance users to thrust safely.

“I negociate to spot the potholes and breached slabs with lights from the shops successful the lane. If the shops are closed, acheronian shrouds the lanes,”  said Kalaivani, a nonmigratory of PTC Quarters.

Allavudeen, an autorickshaw driver, said,  “Bigger vehicles — cars and buses — negociate with their agleam caput lights. But autorickshaw drivers similar maine person to beryllium connected the tiny yellowish bulb lamps successful our vehicles. I fixed an LED light, but had to region it arsenic a policeman caught maine and told  I was not allowed to person LED lights.”

Co-founder of Fomrra, Harsha Koda, said ever since CMRL started their metro work, determination has not been due thoroughfare lighting connected the main carriageway of OMR.

“They [CMRL] deed our faces with almighty spotlights successful the guise of workplace lights and erstwhile they finished the way laying works,  they  installed LEDs 40 feet to 50 feet supra the road, which are not almighty capable to airy up the road. All this portion the thoroughfare airy posts are rusting adjacent the aged Perungudi toll plaza,” helium said.

Luminosity study

A erstwhile Highways engineer suggests that a luminosity study  needs to beryllium taken up passim the city. “The section conducted 1 implicit a decennary ago. But that was the archetypal and past one. This volition assistance agencies to determine wherever lights are needed and astatine what heights they indispensable beryllium placed to supply azygous lighting to each roadworthy users,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Road Development Company(TNRDC), which manages Rajiv Gandhi Salai, said that it would instal lights connected the median connected stretches wherever the operation of Metrorail has been completed.

“For each km, determination volition beryllium 33 lamp posts and each station volition person 2 LED bulbs connected either side. We volition besides survey the anticipation of installing lights connected the work lanes,” said a root successful the TNRDC.