The Velachery Main Road and Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial street junction in Pallikaranai additionally referred to as Kamakshi Hospital junction was a nightmare for motorists regardless of having a flyover. Motorists continuing beneath the flyover needed to look ahead to a number of minutes to cross the junction.
The Pallikaranai Traffic police of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate to ease the visitors congestion prevailing on the Pallavaram Thoraipakkam Radial Road of Sunnambu Kathur had made visitors modifications by eradicating the visitors alerts at two junctions together with the Sunnambu Kolathur Main Road and Dr. Ambedkar Salai and Vinayagapuram most important street visitors junctions. The Sunnambu Kolathur junction had visitors congestion just like Kamakshi hospital junction and to ease the visitors bottleneck the visitors police had opened ‘U’ activates the radial street for autos to proceed with out a lot delay. While this new visitors preparations have eased the visitors congestion on the sign junctions, it has opened a brand new concern of fallacious facet driving, on the Sunnambu Kolathur Main Road and Dr. Ambedkar Salai.
S. Muneeswaran, a resident of Dr. Ambedkar Salai of Sunnambu Kolathur, mentioned the brand new visitors preparations has to a big extent eliminated the visitors congestion on the sign junction however fallacious facet driving notably by two-wheelers sure for the lodges and outlets have elevated because the motorists to keep away from continuing a protracted distance to succeed in the opposite facet of the vacation spot have began driving on the fallacious facet by the U turns.
L. Kasirajan, an everyday motorist from Pallavaram utilizing the radial street, mentioned having eliminated the 2 sign junctions at Sunnambu Kathur and Vinayagapuram Road and blocking it with barricades the visitors congestion has been shifted to the U turns with heavy autos occupying two of the three lanes inflicting congestion. The visitors police would have put visitors constable a to manage the visitors on the U turns throughout peak morning and night hours.
A senior official of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate the brand new visitors measure has been initiated as a pilot mission and solely primarily based on the suggestions obtained the visitors measures could be made everlasting.
Published – July 30, 2025 12:57 am IST
