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Residents surviving on the engaged Chennai Tirupathi High (CTH) Road from Padi to Thiruninravur person urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to nonstop the Highways Department to instrumentality up widening of the 22-km road.
The road, with its galore junctions, turns and curves, and thousands of commercialized establishments and concern units, remains a four-lane wide installation since 2013, though much than 1.5 lakh vehicles usage it each day.
“On engaged days, it takes america astir 2 hours to screen the stretch. Motorists cannot question astatine much than 30 kmph connected this constrictive road. Smaller vehicles person to jostle for abstraction with the dense trucks that usage this roadworthy from the concern units successful Ambattur, Padi and adjacent concern estates. Accidents are communal connected this roadworthy arsenic determination is not capable policing,” said R. Raghunathan, a nonmigratory of Ambattur.
Consumer activistic and Pattabiram nonmigratory T. Sadagopan said roads specified arsenic OMR, ECR, and the Thoraipakkam-Pallavaram Radial Road had taken overmuch little clip to widen. “Though this roadworthy connects america to Tirupati, an important temple municipality successful the neighbouring State of Andhra Pradesh, we bash not person a azygous autobus work to that State connected this road. You tin besides spot earthy sewage flowing on this State Highway,” helium said.
“Every day, caller commercialized establishments are coming up connected some sides. But nary provisions are being made for creating parking spaces. As a result, vehicles are parked haphazardly successful beforehand of these establishments. We bash not deliberation immoderate readying permissions are being granted to these shops. Construction has been taken up astatine locations wherever the Highways Department had made markings,” helium added.
Saravanan, a nonmigratory of Ambattur, said the roadworthy did not person a due stormwater drain and galore stretches were flooded during rain. “Only haphazard enactment is taken up to reconstruct normalcy. Every election, we rise the contented of widening this road, but thing happens. Local traders person been objecting to the widening, and the Highways Department has been conscionable astir maintaining the road,” helium said.
The stretch, which was portion of the Chennai-Tirupati National Highway, was handed implicit to the State Highways Department by the National Highways Authority of India, which said widening it would not beryllium imaginable due to the fact that of urbanisation.
In April 2013, erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced that the roadworthy would beryllium widened into a six-lane facility. The State authorities besides allocated ₹168 crore for onshore acquisition. In December 2013, the Highways Department took up enactment to widen the roadworthy extremity to extremity wherever onshore was available, astatine a outgo of ₹98 crore. The roadworthy has remains mostly unchanged since then.
Highways Department sources said the connection to widen the roadworthy was nether progressive consideration.
