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Streamline traffic in Thripunithura

Streamline traffic

in Thripunithura

Thripunithura has become a busy centre with mushrooming of apartments/flats in the heart of the town, thereby paving way for increased commercial activities and other infrastructure facilities.

With the steady increase in population in the town, several builders have come forward to invest in the property business. The palace town has given way to modern multi-storeyed apartments and all of them have full occupancy.

However, the thickly populated town is not able to cope with the rush and the roads are not wide enough to accommodate the increased number of vehicles.

Traffic snarls are frequent on the road from Government Palace High School to Statue Junction. This is mainly owing to the fact that the drainage is not covered. Since widening of this road is not possible for the time being, at least the drainage can be covered with concrete slabs, so that the pedestrians/school-going children can use the space without fear of speeding vehicles.

Anand Sankar

Thripunithura

Rehabilitate beggars

The five-day campaign undertaken by the City Corporation to check the inflow of beggars from the neighbouring States should be supplemented with intensive efforts by the police to rehabilitate beggars.

There have been several instances of beggars being involved in criminal activities such as theft and cheating.

Many of them vanish to their hometowns after the crime.

I request the authorities concerned to initiate measures to rehabilitate the existing beggars at rescue homes and check the entry of beggars into the city. The public and residents' associations should cooperate with the police in this matter.

C.P. Velayudhan Nair

Kochi

Woes of rail commuters

Rail commuters are put to hardship by the cut in the number of trains passing through Ernakulam Junction and Town Railway stations. Moreover, the number of bogies in the existing trains has been reduced.

This has dealt a blow to low income and middle class railway passengers, as there are fewer sleeper berths or ordinary compartments.

I request the railway authorities and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to withdraw the unilateral decisions and redress the grievances of rail passengers.

The new two-wheeler parking toll collection system introduced recently by the Railways should be replaced with the old system of per day toll collection at a reasonable rate.

H. Ravikumar Pai

Kochi

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