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Sankarapuram residents person urged the Southern Railway to driblet its connection to conception a obstruction nether span and alternatively physique a obstruction overbridge, arsenic portion of its inaugural to region manned level crossing gates astatine respective locations.
The Southern Railway had projected constructing a subway adjacent Walajabad railway presumption to regenerate the Sankarapuram level-crossing gate.
The projected subway is intended to supply faster and smoother entree for residents of Sankarapuram and adjacent villages successful Pazhayaseeamvaram. However, Sankarapuram residents pointed retired that the projected subway could beryllium inundated owed to its proximity to Aarukondaan Lake.
Social activistic R. Arumugam said that the water is 1 of the astir important waterbodies successful Kancheepuram district, arsenic surplus rainwater from much than 10 villages flows into it. Moreover, the railway way alignment runs adjacent to the lake.
E. Boopathy, a nonmigratory of Sankarapuram, said that if a subway is constructed, surplus rainwater could flood the underpass and wholly artifact access.
Residents besides pointed retired that the Railway Board had sanctioned the doubling of the railway enactment betwixt Arakkonam and Chengalpattu, and said this would make further problems if the subway is built.
A elder Southern Railway authoritative said that the residents’ concerns are being considered, and a determination volition beryllium taken soon.
