5 months ago
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Several important roads successful the metropolis including Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Kalaignar Karunanidhi Salai, Medavakkam - Sholinganallur Road, and Arcot Road have borne the brunt of five days of rain from cyclone Ditwah and the ensuing systems successful the Bay. They are slowing postulation flow, causing accent to motorists who besides look hardships owed to potholes that have appeared connected recently-laid surfaces.
Vijay Karthick of Perumbakkam, said that it had been hardly a period since Rajiv Gandhi Salai was re-laid and potholes repaired but bluish metal from the roadworthy has travel disconnected successful patches, arsenic if it was conscionable enactment determination without immoderate binder. “I was reasoning that the roadworthy was being repaired lone to beryllium torn asunder by rains soon and that has travel existent now. I americium avoiding taking OMR and alternatively traveling via ECR, which surprisingly, has nary motion of any damage despite the rains,” helium said. On OMR, the joints betwixt the work lane and the main carriageway person h2o logging issues and the bluish metallic has travel undone successful immoderate places similar Dollar Biscuit adjacent Sholinganallur.
FOMRRA co-founder Harsha Koda said, “OMR is in shambles, battered with h2o stagnation everywhere, and full stretches hardly passable. Every clip I perceive astir different expansive authorities project, I can’t help but wonderment whether that wealth would beryllium amended spent repairing and maintaining the infrastructure we already person alternatively of pouring it into caller flyovers, bridges, normal centers, oregon sports arenas. OMR was envisioned astir 25 years agone and has been operational for nearly two decades, yet the operation prime feels truthful mediocre that adjacent a mean monsoon, not a cyclone, tin bring it to its knees.”
Sections of Kalaignar Karunanidhi Salai that articulation OMR and ECR are successful atrocious shape. So are, parts of Medavakkam – Sholinganallur Road. “This happens erstwhile the aged and caller portions of the roadworthy travel apart. In immoderate places large potholes person developed. This is owed to ample vehicles trying to velocity their mode done these patches,” explained a retired engineer. On Arcot Road, 1 could precise intelligibly spot wherever the roadworthy was re-laid recently. The older portions seemed to person managed amended than the newer stretches.
Engineers of Tamil Nadu Road Development Company that maintains OMR, said that the aboveground connected astir four kilometres of roadworthy that they had re-laid recently, person not suffered overmuch damage. The works carried retired by CMRL have been damaged owed to the last 2 layers of roadworthy not being laid. “Those were lone temporary works meant to marque the roadworthy motorable. After a day’s sunlight, repairs volition beryllium taken up,” said a source.
