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Better visibility

Readers' Mail in the Hindu dated September 5 carries a letter expressively bringing out the fact that a police booth at the TV Swamy - DB Road intersection blocks the view of cross traffic. On this very subject, I have been submitting written suggestions to the Commissioner of Police and the Commissioner of Coimbatore Corporation.

The police beat at road junctions are mostly sponsored by various corporates. The box within which the policeman stands, invariably carries their advertisements, obscuring the vision. Suggestion: The box could with advantage be placed over the head of the beat post, carrying the ads more prominently and at the same time enabling better visibility for drivers. The medians along the roads carrying advertisements on metal sheets. They could similarly be raised up suitably - say 3 ft - providing better visibility through the weld-mesh at the lower levels.

A police beat on a stand located at the T-junction of DB Road and Arokiaswamy road (West) - presently in disuse, is wrongly placed at the turning point adjoining the Rathna Vinayakar Temple. Suggestion: The beat box could be gainfully placed at the head of the `T' enabling due control of the traffic, with better mutual visibility between the policeman and vehicular traffic.

N Jayaramachandran

RS Puram.

Death traps

Though the road between Puliakulam Junction and Varadarajapuram was re-laid shortly, a stretch of half-a-km between Sowripalayam cemetery and G. V. Residency has been left out, resulting in death traps - potholes in abundance - causing undue hardships to pedestrians and vehicular traffic. If this is not attended to immediately before the onset of the monsoon, we can expect many accidents. This road is utilised by route buses, besides educational buses and other heavy vehicles.

T. Subramanian,

President,

Rajiv Gandhi Nagar Welfare Association.

Parthenium revisited

Any plant that we cannot understand is often listed as a weed. Pathenium, when it began to spread, appeared as an obnoxious weed, the biggest terrorist on earth! decade ago, international scientists met at Karnataka and decided to look upon this beautiful herb to be utilised for human welfare. Also they decided to have a newsletter for exchange of views. Now the Union Government has woken up and wants to eradicate the plant. There was another scheme to eradicate water hyacinth from the Ooty lake. So also the cleaning of Ganga and Kaveri! The research project, "Tackling of parthenium with cassia is a quarter-century old, with no impact. I wish the Government encouraged projects to utilise weeds like cyperus, lantana, eichhornia, eupatorium and others.

K.K. Lakshmanan,

Trichy Road.

Irresponsible attitude

It is 9 a.m. on Thursday morning. The whole of Coimbatore is busy moving towards their offices and schools. People on Trichy road are waiting on the road not knowing what is blocking it. Finally, all the two wheelers take a pavement diversion and move forward to witness the irresponsible act of two bus drivers. A Government bus and a private bus are blocking the entire road.

The driver of the private bus was probably in a great hurry, tried to overtake the other bus and finally hit it, blocking the rear doorway for passengers. All passengers disembarked from the door near the driver's seat.

All this commtion was in a `No-Horn' zone, bang opposite Alvernia Matriculation Higher Secondary School. There was no diversion of traffic till 9.25 a.m. This is just one of the incidents to highlighted the irresponsible behaviour of a few bus drivers. Why the hurry? Can something be done?

Ranjini,

Coimbatore.

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