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The Greater Chennai Corporation had announced the scheme in the budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024, noting that the Mayor will visit each zone personally to receive petitions from the public and ensure that their problems are addressed immediately.
Worn out: An unmotorable stretch of Mint Street.
| Photo Credit: RAGU R
Bad roads have worsened the traffic congestion in one of the oldest trade centres of the city The nearly 3-km-long Mint Street in the Royapuram Zone of the Greater Chennai Corporation is not only known as one of the oldest business hubs in the city but is also notorious for its congestion.
Narrow carriageway, chock-a-block buildings, a huge influx of people, movement of tricycles and cycle rickshaws and the existence of innumerable lanes and by-lanes are cited as the reasons for the congestion and chaos. While these make up for the character of the locality that remains unchangeable, the state of the roads can improve the situation, say residents and shopkeepers. Damaged roads on many stretches of Mint Street and adjacent areas have of late worsened the congestion in the locality, they say.