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The arterial roads, including the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road and the Maduravoyal–Tambaram Bypass Road, were choked with postulation precocious connected Friday arsenic implicit 7 lakh radical near the city to observe the Deepavali festival successful their hometowns.
In presumption of the dense postulation during the festival, the Tambaram City Police, successful coordination with the Greater Chennai Police, implemented postulation regulations and vehicle diversions to guarantee the creaseless travel of vehicles towards the Kalaignar Centenary Bus Terminus (KCBT) successful Kilambakkam and to forestall congestion crossed the city.
However, from Friday night, postulation congestion was reported astatine Koyambedu, Chromepet, Tambaram, Vandalur, and Paranur toll plaza. Vehicles piled up adjacent toll plazas specified arsenic Paranur and Vikravandi.
Special buses were operated from KCBT, Madhavaram, and CMBT (Koyambedu). A ample fig of passengers were seen astatine Kilambakkam precocious connected Friday, waiting to committee buses to their destinations. Transport Minister S. S. Sivasankar and officials inspected the peculiar arrangements astatine KCBT, Kilambakkam.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Tambaram City Police, Samay Singh Meena, said, “We person taken steps to guarantee the creaseless travel of vehicles towards the Kalaignar Centenary Bus Terminus (KCBT) and to forestall congestion. We person besides advised radical travelling by idiosyncratic vehicles to usage alternate routes. Vehicular postulation was dense precocious connected Friday on GST Road, and we deployed 600 postulation constabulary personnel, successful summation to instrumentality and bid police. They continuously regulated the postulation until 3 a.m. connected Saturday.”
Traffic towards the confederate districts from the metropolis began gathering up connected Friday day and subsided lone astatine aboriginal hours of Saturday. Passengers travelling towards Puducherry, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Sirkazhi, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Mayiladuthurai, and adjacent districts were advised to usage alternate routes specified arsenic the OMR and ECR for a congestion-free travel some ways.
A full of 2,853 peculiar buses were operated from KCBT, Kilambakkam, until midnight connected Friday. Special section trains were besides operated astatine regular intervals to easiness roadworthy congestion. Crowds gathered successful ample numbers astatine Central, Egmore, and Tambaram railway stations.
Superintendent of Police, Chengalpattu, V. V. Sai Praneeth, said, “We had already issued an advisory connected imaginable postulation congestion, arsenic a ample fig of radical were travelling to the southbound via GST Road. Traffic was dilatory successful definite stretches owed to ongoing roadworthy enlargement works. We deployed implicit 400 constabulary unit to modulate the traffic.”
From 2 p.m. onwards connected some October 17 and 18 (Friday and Saturday), dense vehicles leaving Chennai city, including from the bluish parts and Avadi, were diverted astatine Poonamallee towards the Grand Western Trunk (GWT) Road, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, Tiruvannamalai, and Tirukovilur to scope the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road.
In an advisory, the Chengalpattu District Police stated that span operation and roadworthy enlargement works are ongoing astatine the Pukkathurai and Padalam junctions connected GST Road. The nationalist has been advised to usage alternate routes specified arsenic the ECR and GWT Road to debar delays.
