ROADS

Chennai roads are badly maintained. The woes of the people using the roads are multiple. Why RTO is taking Road Tax, I do not know. If you take Metros, New Delhi's Roads are well maintained. Even Bangalore roads are more smooth and usable.

In our city, the broad arterial roads are narrowed down to less than half with haphazard parking on either side which are generally left unchecked. Two wheelers, mini-trucks, cabs,and cycles are parked in such a way as to obstruct smooth traffic on either side. The roads are also used as storing space for building materials, timbers, abandoned vehicles, garbage bins, and such other articles. If there are rains then the roads are a perfect picture of hell.

The roads have pot-holes, deep depressions due to manhole lids, and dug out dangers. The sewage department somehow takes pleasure at leaving the manhole half covered with a tree branch for warning the public. Will this tree branch be visible in the night?. The road dividers are not at all noticable in the night as there are no fluorecent reflectors on them. At many places the stones from the road dividers have been uprooted and left in the middle. The pot-holes are patched up very badly leaving the roads uneven which are a hazard for two-wheelers and other vehicles using the roads.

There is no will power to widen many of the important roads. Strict traffic disciplines are not enforced to streamline the movement of vehicle. There is haphazard crossing by people across the roads. There is hardly any place for the pedestrians to walk. The two-wheelers use the platforms on the roads to get ahead of traffic.

Most of the roads do not have pavements for the pedestrians to walk. There are no culverts along the canals and sewage flows.

In Industrial areas the roads are the worst. Is the Corporation or Government not getting the revenue from the Industries?. Why are the Industrial Associations keeping quiet?. Can they not make the Corporation lay the roads?. In fact they can save a lot of damage to the materials if the roads are smooth as the vehicles carrying their finished goods can do so safely.

On the highways there are no patrolling. Trucks are left parked haphazardly with the authorities not noticing them at all. Lane discipline is not enforced doing which can minimise accidents. Wrong turns, especially at the medians by the truck and bus drivers are not at all checked. With the result that these highways just outside of Chennai have become killer zones.