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Tamil Nadu
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Speed breakers put up with the help of barricades, supported by boulders, on the Pallipalayam— Tiruchengode Road at Aalampalayam pose a grave threat to motorists.
TIRUCHENGODE: The road to hell is always paved with good intentions, goes a popular, witty one-liner. A slight change to that sentence will sum up in full sense what is on the Tiruchengode-Pallipalayam Road. The new one shall read: The road to Pallipalayam at Aalampalayam is paved with boulder-supported barricades. Does the road take you to Pallipalayam or elsewhere, well, depends on how well you negotiate the barricades. For at Aalampalayam, the villagers have placed barricades supported by boulders to force vehicles to reduce speed. They justify saying barricades alone have not been enough. “Whenever we placed just barricades, vehicles, particularly buses, paid scant attention to speed warnings. They simply knocked them down,” says Panchayat president P. Yuvaraj. He justifies the move saying that in the past few years 27 persons from the village have lost their lives in traffic accidents. Alert
Asked if an accidental hit on the barricades would not prove grievous or fatal for road users, he says that has been taken care of by painting the boulders in white to alert road users. The president further says that in the past, the villagers had protested at least 10 times to have a pucca speed breaker, which has come to fruition only recently in the form of a set of speed breakers. He says only if the Highways Department provides another set of speed breakers (a set is three – a big one in the centre and two smaller ones on either side), which he says they refuse, will the villagers remove the boulder-supported speed breakers. Asked about the arrangement, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tiruchengode, M. Nachiappan, says the accident-prone area requires such a set-up. “Not a week goes without the area witnessing an accident, which is mainly due to speeding buses,” he says and adds that the area requires another set of speed breakers to remove the barricades.
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