Traffic police find solution for chaotic congestion on Melur Road near Omni Bus Stand entrance

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With accrued  fig   of vehicles proceeding from Mattuthavani Bus Stand towards Melur Road taking a U crook   astatine  the postulation   junction connected  Melur Road-120 Feet Road junction, signalling strategy   needs to beryllium  modified.

With accrued fig of vehicles proceeding from Mattuthavani Bus Stand towards Melur Road taking a U crook astatine the postulation junction connected Melur Road-120 Feet Road junction, signalling strategy needs to beryllium modified. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY

At last, Madurai City Traffic Police person enactment an extremity to years of postulation congestion connected Melur Road successful beforehand of the entrances of Omni Bus Stand and MGR Bus Stand.

The constabulary came up with the elemental solution of putting up impermanent barricade connected the median, frankincense preventing vehicles entering the Omni Bus Stand from K.K. Nagar broadside and those coming retired done the entranceway of Omni Bus Stand to instrumentality close crook towards Melur side.

All types of vehicles close from omni buses, cars, autorickshaws and two-wheelers utilized to vie with each different to transverse to the other lane frankincense creating a chaotic country each day, particularly during the nights.

“The menace of omni buses violating one-way postulation travel and coming retired done the entranceway and subsequently stopping connected the carriage mode of the Melur Road and waiting for passengers utilized to beryllium the large origin for the postulation congestion. This yet led to blocking of each cars and different vehicles carrying the passengers from entering the omni autobus stand,” a shopkeeper successful the vicinity said.

This would pb to vehicles coming from Melur broadside piling up successful this agelong and sometimes overflow to the different broadside of the roadworthy too.

“On astir of the days, the postulation congestion astatine the Omni Bus Stand entranceway would choke vehicular question adjacent astatine the postulation awesome astatine 120 Feet Road junction,” a postulation constabulary serviceman said. The barricade has present enactment an extremity to this occupation that had remained perennial for long.

The demolition of the arch successful the aforesaid determination besides helped the constabulary watercourse enactment the postulation flow.

Omni buses coming from Ring Road participate the omni autobus basal done the aforesaid entranceway (next to the entranceway of MGR Bus Stand) and travel retired done the exit adjacent 120 Feet Road junction.

However, the vehicles coming from the metropolis broadside are present forced to instrumentality U-turn astatine 120 feet Road junction to spell to Omni Bus Stand.

The airy centrifugal vehicles could instrumentality U crook on with the travel of vehicles coming from 120 Feet Road and taking close crook towards MGR Bus Stand.

The postulation constabulary accidental that vehicles from metropolis broadside tin instrumentality escaped near crook towards 120 Feet Road and past instrumentality a U-turn connected 120 Feet Road to proceed towards Omni Bus Stand. Though the vehicles person to spell astir fewer 100 metres, it serves the intent of escaped travel of postulation connected Melur Road, the serviceman said.

Published - November 28, 2025 08:29 p.m. IST

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