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Residents surviving on the engaged Chennai Tirupathi High (CTH) Road from Padi to Thiruninravur person urged Chief Minister C. Vijay Joseph to nonstop the Highways section to instrumentality up widening of the 22 km road.
The roadworthy with its galore junctions, turns and curves, and thousands of commercialized establishments and concern units, remains a four-lane wide installation from 2013 though implicit 1.50 lakh vehicles instrumentality it daily.
“On engaged days, it takes america astir 2 hours to screen the agelong with its curves and turns. Motorists cannot bash much than 30 kmph connected this constrictive road. Smaller vehicles person to jostle for abstraction among the dense trucks that instrumentality this roadworthy from the concern units successful Ambattur, Padi and adjacent concern estates. Accidents are a communal noun connected this roadworthy arsenic determination is not capable policing,” said R. Raghunathan, a nonmigratory of Ambattur.
Consumer activistic and nonmigratory of Pattabiram T. Sadagopan said that roads similar OMR, ECR and Thoraipakkam-Pallavaram Radial Road person taken overmuch lesser clip to widen. “Though this roadworthy connects america to Tirupathi, an important temple municipality successful the neighbouring State, we don’t person a azygous autobus work to Andhra Pradesh via this stretch. You tin spot earthy sewage moving connected this State Highway.”
“Every time caller commercialized establishments are coming up connected some sides. But nary provisions are being made for creating parking spaces. As a result, vehicles are haphazardly parked successful beforehand of the establishments. We don’t deliberation immoderate benignant of readying permissions are fixed to these shops. Construction has been taken up successful locations wherever the Highways section had made markings,” helium said.
Saravanan, a nonmigratory of Ambattur said that the roadworthy does not person a due stormwater drain and galore stretches her flooded during the rains. “Only haphazard enactment is taken up to reconstruct normalcy. Every election, we volition instrumentality up this widening with the governmental parties. But thing happens. Local traders person been objecting to the widening and the Highways excessively has been conscionable astir maintaining the road.”
The agelong that had been portion of the Chennai - Tirupathi National Highway, was handed implicit to the State Highways by the National Highways Authority of India saying that widening it would not beryllium imaginable owed to urbanisation. In April 2013 erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had announced that the roadworthy would beryllium widened into a six lane facility. The State authorities had besides allocated ₹168 crore for the onshore acquisition.
In December 2013, the highways section took up enactment to widen the agelong from end-to-end, meaning wherever onshore was available, astatine a outgo of ₹98 crore and the roadworthy came to beryllium arsenic it is today. Sources successful the Highways section said that the connection to widen it was nether their progressive consideration.
Photo: Deepa H. Ramakrishnan
