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Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin connected Wednesday inaugurated the limited–use vehicular subway astatine Radha Nagar in Chromepet, constructed astatine a outgo of ₹31.62 crore. The subway was constructed successful lieu of level crossing 27 and will benefit residents of Radha Nagar, Zameen Pallavaram, Postal Nagar, Nemilichery, Nanmangalam and Medavakkam. Minister for MSME T.M. Anbarasan and MLAs E. Karunanidhi, S.R. Raja and Chenalpattu territory Collector D. Sneha were besides contiguous connected the occasion.
The facility was planned mode backmost in 2006, and the instauration chromatic excessively was laid, as a pedestrian-only facility to enable residents of East Chromepet to entree the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road. The archetypal task magnitude was ₹17.65 crore. However, the Highways section took the telephone to person it to a limited-use subway, acceding to the demands of 1 conception of residents of Radha Nagar Main Road, a thickly populated marketplace country successful 2016.
Activist V. Santhanam said that many meetings of residents, section assemblage representatives, successive MLAs and officials took place over the years. “We held galore protests urging the authorities to decorativeness the project. We kept pushing for its completion. By 2012, the railways had completed their enactment to construct the structure nether the tracks. It has taken truthful galore years to implicit an important infrastructure project. The gross volition nevertheless stay unfastened for bigger vehicles to cross,” helium noted.
The total length of the subway is 329mt and the width is 5.5mt. Separate work bridges person been constructed connected the GST Road side and Radha Nagar side to facilitate easy entree to Chromepet railway station. Staircases have been provided to access Radha Nagar and the GST Road side from the railway station. Height gauges have been installed connected some sides of the subway to forestall heavy vehicles from entering it. LED lights person been installed connected some sides of the retaining partition of the subway.
