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Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road was clogged connected Sunday arsenic thousands of vehicles, particularly two-wheelers and cars, returned to the metropolis aft Pongal celebrations. The unreserved started successful the morning, and postulation jams were witnessed connected respective locations, including Singaperumal Koil, Madurantakam, and Tambaram.
Parasuraman, a nonmigratory of Ponvilaindakalathur, said that they avoided getting connected GST Road adjacent for buying during Pongal. “We unrecorded 3 km from Chengalpattu town, which is our buying hub. But the postulation connected the nationalist road made america deliberation twice,” helium said.
On Sunday afternoon, interior roads of Chengalpattu municipality became unusually busy. “People who cognize the way to Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) and East Coast Road (ECR) via Chengalpattu municipality and Thiruporur utilized the interior roads. Those who did not were stuck successful postulation connected GST Road. Motorists who wanted to instrumentality GST Road from Chengalpattu-Thiruporur Road were forced to hold till the postulation cleared connected the stretch. The postulation volition lone worsen astatine night, with much radical rushing backmost to re-join enactment connected Monday,” said James, a nonmigratory of Chengalpattu.
Attendants who person been manning the toll plazas successful Paranur, Athur, and Vikravandi looked haggard owing to the higher-than-usual workload. “Traffic has been rather dense successful Athur. The agelong waiting times astatine the plazas is not due to the fact that of a deficiency of FAStags but owed to the sheer measurement of vehicles passing through. Two-wheelers are sent via the country lanes to support the others unfastened for buses and backstage vehicles,” said a root astatine the Athur plaza.
Murugesan, who utilized GST Road from Chennai connected Sunday evening, said the postulation was dense and moved slowly. “Though I tin spot the Vikravandi toll plaza from here, it volition instrumentality maine astatine slightest different 30 minutes to adjacent scope it. I person been shifting betwixt the archetypal and 2nd gears, which is making the full acquisition of going location precise tiring.”
Two-wheeler riders were seen waiting each on the road, taking breaks earlier continuing the tiring journey. A retired Highways technologist said it would beryllium bully if the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) could unfastened much remainder areas for families to instrumentality breaks. “A fewer factual benches and a cleanable h2o root volition beryllium refreshing. Instead, radical tin beryllium seen leaning connected clang barriers,” helium added.
