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Height of speed breakers

No doubt the speed breakers are a must, especially in front of schools / colleges. But the question is what should be the height of it?

It should not be like a ‘small hill’ and break the spine of the rider / pillion rider. Recently, speed breakers with abnormal height were re-laid in front of the Kendriya Vidyalaya on P.T. Rajan Road. Besides causing inconvenience to the riders, they also damage the small vehicles.

The newly-laid road is full of such speed-breakers. Will the authorities set right the height of the speed-breakers and also condition of the road?

R. Jawaher

Madurai

Despite umpteen buses plying between Tuticorin and Tirunelveli, there is always a heavy rush, especially during peak hours.

There is a rail route connecting these two places. But the railways run only two pairs a day in this route, and they halt at nine small stations taking two hours to cover the 50-km distance. By bus it takes only one hour. It is this tedious longer travel time that induces the passengers prefer the bus to the train.

If the railways introduce non-stop point-to-point train services between Tuticorin and Tirunelveli with a journey time of say one hour, majority of the people shall opt for it. It will be financially viable too.

Vellaisamy Murugan,

Madurai

This is with reference to the article dated October 25 — “It is more rewarding than an Internet search.” It is really an eye-opener to hasty pedestrians like the Maduraiites to come to know about these bookstalls.

In future where it would be a paperless office, school etc., a book would really become a fossil.

Children nowadays do not smell the taste of reading as they sit glued to the serials and Internet distractions. The personal touch between the characters of a book and the reader can only be felt and not be told.

When new books do not even attract children, how would the rare ones be? It’s high time parents and teachers developed reading habit among children.

Storytelling times and bedtime stories can really bridge a tender and everlasting relationship between parents and children. Reading habit must be evoked among children.

Jennifer Deepika,

Madurai

At Madurai railway station, only VIP cars are allowed to go to the platforms, right in front of air-conditioned coaches. The same facility can be extended to the general public travelling in air-conditioned coaches so that passengers need not heave their luggage all the way to the coach from the entrance. I request the railway authorities in Madurai to provide the facility indiscriminately to all.

R.G. Rethinam,

Madurai

Residents living in the vicinity of Koodal Nagar wonder how long the traffic police will be indifferent to the following instances of rampant traffic violations that result in fatal accidents:

three-wheelers transporting items, in particular protruding iron rods, beyond the allowed dimension, that too without any lamp to indicate it at night; bullock carts transporting plantain trees and leaves, paddy and bricks in the dark without any lamp; drivers of lorries bound for the goods yard taking a turn opposite the main entrance of catholic church; and drivers of mini buses halting indiscriminately affecting smooth traffic flow.

T.M. Gnanapragasam,

Madurai

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