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‘Pavement and beautification work done on 108 bus route roads’ The non-motorised transport policy of the city could have stopped short of improving the cycling facility but has earned kudos from national and international stages for the pavement infrastructure works.
A senior official of the Greater Chennai Corporation said walkers form the predominant population, mainly for short distances, and the priority was to give wider and safer pavements free of any hindrance such as encroachments and parking of vehicles.
The Corporation had received five national awards and one international award for the pavement project. The senior civic official said that having completed pavements on 108 bus route roads, footpath development work was in progress along 70 arterial roads, stretching for 94 km, at a cost of around ₹100 crore. The pavement widening and beautification work was completed on 108 bus route roads covering Gandhi Irwin Road, N.S.C. Bose Road, Kamarajar Salai (in Marina),
This major infrastructure work at Greams Road is dragging on, say motorists
Motorists taking Greams Road in Thousand Lights complain that the cable-laying work is moving at a sluggish pace, which is testing their patience. One vertical half of the carriageway on this road, with the traffic moving towards Egmore, has been dug up for the work, where the existing power cables are being replaced with high powered cables to carry 400 KV of power by Tangedco to prevent fluctuations.
“Early completion of the cable work will ensure better safety on the stretch,” says K. Subash, a motorist from Royapettah.
A busy link road, Greams Road provides access to many important government and private institutions with huge workforces. The stretch is chaotic due to lack of surveillance including absence of traffic police personnel near the hospital zone. Traffic police personnel, however, are spotted across the bridge at Casa Major Road and Pantheon Road intersection to prevent traffic violat
Gas price hike
I run a bike-repair shop in Pudupet. Due to the pandemic, I had to keep my shop shut, and now our sales have gone down. It is the same for all the shops here Kumaran Lokesh, a bike mechanic
Gas price has shot up to almost `900. It needs to reduce. We have a family of five and it would be hard to shell out `900 for gas cylinders in short periods Valli, Chintadripet resident
Traffic jams near the Chintadripet U-turn are a problem. A proposal to construct a bridge here is still pending Jayanth, Pantheon Road resident );
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