Andhra Pradesh - Eluru   

Thoroughfare turns into nightmare for users

— Photo: AVG Prasad

SORRY STATE: Road margins are dug up, revealing BSNL cables at the busy Ramachandraraopet road in Eluru.

ELURU: The busy Ramachandraraopet road, hub of commercial activity in the city, brings to the fore afresh the awful scenes of traffic chaos, thanks to the BSNL that dug up the road margins for cable works, shrinking the road size.

It’s literally a nightmare for the city people to take a ride on the road particularly in the evenings.

The shrunken road with mounds of gravel dumped on the margins and the coils of cables projecting upwards all along make the trip quite horrible for the users.

The road presents similar scenes of traffic chaos right from the government hospital to Venkatarama Theatre centre with little signs of traffic management by the police.

Of all the roads in the city, the Ramachandraraopet road has earned notoriety with regard to traffic issue.

The traffic management on the road seemingly tests the efficacy of the official top brass.

The alleged trader-politician-official nexus proved to be a major bottleneck that comes in the way of expansion of the road for several years. The businessman-politician lobbying is so powerful that the decision to enforce on-way traffic on the Ramachandraraopet road taken at a meeting of the Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC), chaired by the Superintendent of Police, was allegedly reversed within a couple of days.

The road is also a virtual lab for the officials to make experiments on the traffic management.

The then Collector Sanjay Jaju enforced the centre parking on the road as a solution to the traffic problem following a flood of complaints from different sections of people.

Later, Superintendent of Police B. Balakrishna changed the centre parking into side parking. Yet the problem remains unchanged.

Former municipal Commissioner Md. Khadar Saheb came under fire at a council meeting of the MCE for allegedly removing the pavements on either side of the Ramachandraraopet road which gave more space for business establishments and little pathway for pedestrians allegedly under the influence of traders.

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