8 months ago
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On immoderate fixed day, Ramapuram Main Road is astir definite to beryllium choked with traffic. During highest hours successful the greeting and evening, vehicles crawl for hours, making the 2.5-kilometre agelong astir impassable.
The road, which links areas specified arsenic Nesapakkam, Valasaravakkam, and Alwarthirunagar to Mount Poonamallee Road, has go highly hard to navigate, residents say, owed to ongoing storm-water drain works being done up of the monsoon.
Already notorious for postulation snarls, the roadworthy is utilized by hundreds of office-goers heading to Guindy, DLF, and different hubs. The existent works, however, person compounded the misery of some commuters and residents.
Sugumar, who runs a pharmacy on the road, says the task has dragged connected for implicit 2 months with nary signs of completion. “There is nary coordination betwixt Tangedco and the Chennai Corporation. The enactment is poorly planned. If they had coordinated earlier, the process would person been smoother. For implicit a month, I person mislaid a batch of concern due to the fact that customers simply could not come,” helium says.
Vans and buses of a adjacent backstage assemblage further adhd to the congestion arsenic they conflict to compression done the constrictive stretch. Aruna, an IT nonrecreational who commutes regular to her bureau successful Thoraipakkam, says it is simply a conflict to thrust done the roadworthy each day.
“The roadworthy information is precise bad. At 1 stretch, adjacent aft the pit was closed, the roadworthy is unmotorable due to the fact that rods and debris are inactive lying around. In different part, shops widen into the road, and vehicles are parked haphazardly. This makes it truthful constrictive that 2 cars can’t walk each other,” she explains.
V. Rajan, Chairman of Zone 11 Ward Committee, acknowledged delays successful completing the storm-water drain works. He said that since the roadworthy is already developed arsenic a packed residential and commercialized country with existing sewage lines, energy cables, and metrowater pipelines, the operation is complicated. “In a vacant crippled oregon unfastened space, gathering a canal is straightforward. But here, we indispensable guarantee that drainage, metrowater supply, and different indispensable services are not disrupted, which is wherefore the enactment is taking much time,” helium said.
Mr. Rajan added that plans are besides successful spot to place and region encroachments from the Ramapuram awesome connected Mount Poonamallee Road up to Aavin Junction astatine Alwarthirunagar.
