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With the festival season round the corner, it is time for the authorities to clear roads and footpaths of unauthorised hoardings, says L. Srikrishna
At a time when motorists find the going tough while driving their vehicles owing to an increase in the number of vehicles, the presence of huge advertisement hoardings and banners on roads and business centres in the city is complicating things for them. Apart from being a source of distraction, the hoardings and cut-outs, including those put up for public meetings, at several places pose safety hazards to both motorists and pedestrians. The presence of many of them on footpaths forces pedestrians to walk on the roads which in turn come in the way of a smooth flow of vehicles. Three weeks ago, a huge hoarding on Anna Salai fell. On information, traffic policemen placed a mobile barricade and diverted the traffic. But it took almost two hours to place the hoarding back in its position, a traffic police personnel at the Spencer junction said. Be it the birthday celebration of a political personality or launch of a product or a movie, hoardings and cut-outs spring up overnight. Most of them are not removed until the motorists complained through the media, a member of the Citizen for Safe Roads said. The problems pertaining to the hoardings for motorists and pedestrians are similar on Usman Road, Alwarpet junction, Purasawalkam High Road, Arcot Road, Anna Nagar Main Road and Adyar junction, a traffic warden said. A resident at Kellys junction said hoardings installed near a small culvert distracted road-users. The authorities should clarify whether the hoardings were erected in approved places or not. Violators should be strictly penalised, he added. With festival seasons fast approaching, the roads are only to going to see more advertisement hoardings and banners. Apart from hoardings, the presence of transformers, trees and roadside hawkers and eateries were other types of encroachments in the city that required to be addressed, residents in several areas say.
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