Motorists cautious of site visitors hotspots close to built-in bus stand alongside Tiruchi-Madurai NH

With the Kalaignar Karunanidhi Integrated Bus Terminus changing into operational final month, a couple of highway intersections alongside the Tiruchi-Madurai National Highway part and the Thuvakudi-Panjapur Bypass Road have emerged as site visitors hotspots, elevating issues over the shortage of ample security measures.

With a lot of city and mofussil buses working from the bus terminus having to take a pointy U-turn near the Saranathan Engineering College campus, rushing motorists headed in direction of Tiruchi from Madurai are sometimes caught unawares and are compelled to use the brakes sharply.

Although the police have positioned barricades to drive automobiles to decelerate and go in a zig-zag sample on the U-turn, the close to steady site visitors of buses has turned the spot right into a harmful stretch, say commuters.

“After the opening of the IBT, there’s a steady stream of city and mofussil buses taking a U-turn right here, not solely impeding the via site visitors on the Tiruchi-Madurai and Madurai-Tiruchi carriageways but additionally placing two wheeler riders in danger as they’re pushed to the perimeters of the freeway to present solution to the heavy automobiles,” noticed Gopal, a resident of Manikandam.

Motorists additionally level out that the Thuvakudi- Panjapur bypass highway intersection on the Tiruchi-Madurai National freeway has additionally become a high-risk stretch, following enhance in quantity of site visitors. This is a four-road junction with a Madurai Road from the City additionally becoming a member of the freeway right here. Several automobiles cross over the freeway at this intersection. Temporary barricades are in place right here once more to drive motorists to decelerate on the intersection.

Absence of avenue lights on the freeway stretch accentuates the issue throughout nights, complain motorists.

In current days, residents of Olaiyur located alongside the Thuvakudi-Panjapur Bypass part have expressed apprehensions over the potential for accidents on account of rushing automobiles and demanded the development of a vehicular underpass close to their village.

Emphasising the necessity for enhancing highway furnishings reminiscent of signboards, warning lights, blinkers and so on., to enhance security on the weak stretches, P. Ayyarappan, member, District Road Safety Council, nevertheless, felt that expeditious development of the proposed elevated hall on the stretch by the National Highways Authority of India can be the one everlasting answer. District and metropolis company authorities too contend that the issues can be overcome as soon as the elevated hall comes as much as cater to the via site visitors on the freeway. But development of the elevated hall might take a minimum of a few years.

“Until the mission is executed, highway furnishings ought to be strengthened on the stretch. The NHAI ought to take into account offering lighting alongside the stretch to make sure security of motorists throughout the evening hours, The City police ought to type a separate workforce to manage site visitors across the IBT,” Mr. Ayyarappan mentioned.