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Rail overbridge delay, water-logging dominate Guindy civic meet

Staff Reporter

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raising points: Residents at a meeting to discuss civic issues in Maduvankarai on Sunday. —

CHENNAI: Delay in completion of a railway overbridge, water-logging, inadequate maintenance of a park and nuisance created by customers of a TASMAC outlet in the area were raised by residents of Maduvankarai at a meeting organised here on Sunday.

Expediting the rail overbridge across the Guindy-Mettupalayam level-crossing would reduce the travel time for several hundred people who commute every day from Madippakkam, Adambakkam and Ullagaram-Puzhithivakkam to Guindy and areas along Anna Salai.

In view of the delay in its completion, the roads around the project have not been re-laid posing problems for the motorists, particularly during monsoon when water stagnated, said R. Govindaraj, Secretary of Exnora International.

The meeting was organised by Guindy Exnora Innovators Club.

S. Srinivasan, solid waste management consultant of the club, while welcoming the new system of the Chennai Corporation to fine those who spit or dump garbage on the roads, wanted the civic body to conduct awareness campaigns and workshops for residents on solid waste management.

Pedestrians at risk

S. Rudrapathy, a resident of Cee Dee Yes Avenue, complained that footpath on Cart Track Road have been encroached by commercial establishments.

This forces pedestrians to walk on the narrow road where vehicles driven rashly are not uncommon.

Cart Track road should be paved with concrete to withstand the heavy flow of traffic and to prevent water stagnation, said Nambiar, Secretary of the club.

Complaining about the inadequate maintenance of a park in Secretariat Colony, Varadarajan, a resident of City Limit Road, urged officials of the Corporation to renovate the facility and provide walkers path, install play equipment for children, benches and lighting.

Anuthaman, a resident of Secretariat Colony, said a vast vacant plot belonging to a bank in the colony had become a public nuisance, as the space was being used for dumping garbage, rearing cattle and as a public convenience posing health hazard to the residents.

Balasubramanian, a resident of Ganesh Nagar, said customers to the TASMAC liquor outlet on Nethaji Street were proving a nuisance for the road-users. Women and children found the stretch unsafe.

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