Residents flag poor maintenance of MRTS railway stations in Chennai

Several railway stations connected the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) web successful Chennai are successful mediocre condition. The railway tracks connected elevated corridors, successful particular, overgarment a shoddy picture, with garbage strewn each implicit them.

Some stations similar Kasturba Nagar, Indira Nagar, and Thiruvanmiyur are particularly bad, with questions raised implicit whether cleaning enactment is carried retired astatine all. Besides cleanliness, determination are issues of non-functioning escalators and locked toilets.

The railway stations besides person inadequate lighting astatine night, posing superior inconvenience and information concerns for regular commuters. It is disappointing that specified captious nationalist infrastructure is being neglected successful this way.

We petition the Southern Railway to instrumentality urgent enactment to reconstruct due maintenance, hygiene, and commuter amenities astatine these stations.

R. Shyam

Thiruvanmiyur

Southern Railway responds

A elder authoritative of the Chennai part of the Southern Railway said cleaning contractors are being deputed astatine each railway stations to instrumentality up regular sweeping of the platforms and the presumption premises. Regarding the contented of garbage strewn connected the railway tracks, the authoritative said they would beryllium cleaned up immediately.

Traffic woes astatine Iyyappanthangal autobus basal signal

Motorists successful Iyyappanthangal look terrible postulation congestion connected a regular ground astatine the autobus terminus junction connected Mount-Poonamallee Road. With the closure of the postulation awesome astatine Ambedkar Statue junction, each vehicles are forced to instrumentality a U-turn adjacent the autobus terminus junction.

The elevated corridor of the Chennai Metro Rail has been completed, but the Ambedkar junction remains closed for operation work. Because of this, the postulation travel is clogging the autobus terminus junction.

Besides this, the span of pillars of the Metro Rail is astatine a reduced tallness erstwhile compared to different postulation junctions, causing motorists bound for Oilmill Road to conflict to instrumentality the U-turn.

As a result, a fig of motorists thrust successful the incorrect direction, expanding the hazard of accidents.

C. Senthil

Iyyapanthangal