Traffic woes as city grows
Posted on: 17/Jul/2014 3:05:35 PM
Though the traffic police have made arrangements to ease vehicle movement, residents of Anna Nagar, P.H. Road and Broadway, among others, feel the measures are inadequate. Travelling on certain arterial stretches in the city has become an ordeal especially during peak hours.
The main reasons are the one-ways, traffic diversions and narrowing down of roads for ongoing Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) work.
During the rush hours in the morning and evening, the city’s traffic moves at snail’s pace.
Though the Chennai traffic police claim to have made arrangements, including one-way routes and traffic diversions, to ease vehicle movement, residents feel the measures are inadequate. The public however feels that ‘for travelling a few hundred meters, we take a detour of four kilometres’!
The secretary of Anna Nagar Welfare Association says the locality lacks pedestrian crossing, traffic signals and traffic personnel at the main junctions.
Traffic policemen on Poonamallee High Road, too, complain that the problem gets aggravated during peak hours, especially near Chennai Central Railway station and Kilpauk Medical College.
Another location where traffic is chaotic is Broadway as the road has become narrow. Traffic experts feel that a lot needs to be done for traffic management in Chennai. One step suggested is that they could put the two- and three-wheelers in one lane and the four-wheelers in the other.
Establishing traffic engineering centres and training people is crucial to conducting surveys and providing better solutions for traffic congestion.
Chennai Metro Project adds its share to the traffic.
