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Defacement ban from Aug. 1

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation’s ban on posters and graffiti on flyovers, bridges, and pedestrian and vehicular subways, in all 250 facilities, will come into effect on August 1.

Mayor M. Subramanian said the ban would be in place with respect to facilities belonging to both the civic body and the Highways Department. The Corporation maintains 23 bridges each across the Buckingham and Virugambakkam canals, 11 over the Cooum river, five across the Adyar, 18 over Otteri Nullah and 11 across the Kodungaiyur canal.

Then there are eight road overbridges, 13 road underbridges, six pedestrian subways and 30 foot overbridges under its control.

The Highways Department maintains 27 such facilities, including four road overbridges, seven bridges across the Cooum and the Adyar.

“We will call for zone-wise meetings of agencies which undertake sticking of posters and urge them to avoid defacing such properties. Many new facilities like the flyovers in Mahalingapuram and on G.N. Chetty Road and Usman Road look ugly with posters pasted all over them,” he said.

The Mayor said a drive to remove posters and graffiti would be launched on July 31.

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