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Two engaged roads astatine Thatchanallur successful the city, which has remained damaged for the past fewer years acknowledgment to the underground drainage work, is yet to beryllium re-laid adjacent though it is present handling much fig of dense vehicles aft the caller opening of the motortruck terminal astatine Pettai.
After the motortruck terminal constructed nether the Smart City Mission astatine the outgo of ₹14.67 crore successful Pettai became operational recently, the territory medication has prohibited the introduction of trucks carrying fruits, vegetables and different cargo into Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai. These lorries coming from immoderate absorption should thrust straight to this terminal astatine Pettai aft traversing the roads connected the metropolis suburbs alternatively of taking the arterial roads of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai which was causing superior postulation congestion successful the city.
However, lorries carrying indispensable commodities to the ration shops and the substance tankers person been exempted from this ban.
The lorries, aft offloading the cargo astatine this motortruck terminal, should permission the metropolis via the suburban roads and the mini cargo vehicles should beryllium utilized to instrumentality the commodities from the motortruck terminal to the shops, arsenic per the contiguous statement which has importantly averted postulation snarl wrong the city.
Hence, the lorries entering the metropolis from Madurai Road person to archetypal instrumentality the Thatchanallur Road to scope Santhimariththamman Temple, from wherever the dense vehicles should instrumentality the 2nd roadworthy connecting this temple with Sankarankovil Highway. After taking the Kandigaiperikulam Road from this point, the lorries should scope the motortruck terminal successful Pettai.
However, these 2 engaged roads of Thatchanallur, which would usually beryllium successful a atrocious information astatine immoderate constituent of clip for reasons champion known to the Tirunelveli Corporation officials, are present successful the worst signifier aft being dug for the underground drainage work.
“While the declaration steadfast identified by the Tirunelveli Corporation for the underground drainage enactment successful Palayamkottai abandoned the enactment midway, L and T, which executed the enactment successful Thatchanallur Zone of Tirunelveli Corporation, completed the enactment astatine desirable pace. Even though much than 99% of the underground drainage enactment has been completed successful Thatchanallur Zone, the Corporation officials garbage to re-lay the damaged roads. Despite repeated petitions with the Corporation, the municipality civic assemblage is successful nary temper astatine slightest to repair these 2 severely damaged roads. The particulate emanating from this 3 Km-long pothole-riddled agelong has destroyed the concern of the traders having shops on this roadworthy and the residents person mislaid their peace,” said S. Murugan, 1 of the shopkeepers.
The residents and the traders kick that vehicular postulation on these 2 roads has accrued manifold aft the prohibition connected introduction of dense cargo vehicles into Tirunelveli came into unit connected past Monday (September 22) causing much woes.
DMK Councillor Shankar Kumar of Ward 13 says that the earnestly damaged agelong connecting Sankarankovil Road and Madurai Highway would beryllium obstructing the ‘dasara car procession’ to beryllium taken-out via Thatchanallur connected October 3. Since the underground drainage enactment had been completed successful these areas, the trenches should beryllium covered by factual earlier laying the road.
“After pouring the factual to firm-up the trenches and debar imaginable sinkholes, the Corporation should re-lay this engaged road. I’m besides waiting for the Corporation’s affirmative steps aft submitting a petition successful this transportation recently,” Mr. Shankar Kumar says.
Corporation Commissioner Monika Rana could not beryllium reached for her comments.
