Bus route roads to get granite footpaths
By Express News Service - CHENNAI
22nd November 2012 08:19 AM
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The new proposal will cover a total of 71 bus route roads | S S SUDHARSHAN
The Chennai Corporation has come up with a proposal to re-lay the city’s footpaths on all the bus route roads with granite kerbs and slabs. The proposal covers eight zones in Chennai - Tondiarpet, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, Anna Nagar, Teynampet, Kodambakkam, Alandur and Adyar - covering a total of 71 roads.
Budgeted at a cost of Rs 42.75 crore, the civic body is slated to open the tender on December 6 and present it for approval before the council by the end of December. “If things go smoothly and the tenders get approved, work might commence from January. We have given a schedule of four months for work to be completed,” said an official.
Zone IX, Teynampet, is set to be the longest area covered, with 21 bus route roads getting new footpaths, at a total length of 15.66 kms.
Tank Bund Road, Sterling Road, 70 Scheme Road, Greams Road, Thiru Vi Ka Salai, Valluvar Kottam High Road, Thyagaraya Road, North Usman Road, Luz Church Road and Chamiers Road are some of the other roads included. Teynampet alone will get a total of 62,620 sq km of new footpaths at a cost of Rs 13.65 crore.
Kodambakkam (Zone X) is the second longest area with 13 roads, including Dr Nair Road, parts of South Usman Road, Thyagaraya Road, Duraiswamy Road and Tamniah Road, at a total length of 9.85 sq kms.
Pantheon Road, Purasawalkam High Road, Whannels Road, Halls Road, Casa Major Road and Gandhi Irwin Road, among others, will receive new footpaths in the Royapuram Zone for a total length of 6.82 kms.
Anna Nagar’s Shanthi Colony, Kathipara Road, Indira Nagar’s Second and Third Avenue roads, Besant Nagar’s Second Avenue Road, Mahatma Gandhi Road and Choolai High Road are among the other roads listed under the civic body’s proposal.
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Comments(5)
A very good proposal & the budgeted amount also looks very substantial. Has the Corporation however looked into the matter of MAINTENANCE of these footpaths because at the slightest shower, you will find the electricity department, telephone authorities & water authorities digging up the area to do their work on completion of which (if they ever complete the work they undertake), they will leave the slabs they have removed lying all over the place thus creating a SAFETY HAZARD to pedestrians. Whoever removes these slabs should be given a time limit within which to complete the work & bring the footpath back to the condition it was in before they started digging failing which, they should be made to pay HEAVY PENALTIES till such time as they complete the job to the satisfaction of the corporation.
Posted by Pattibaraman at 11/22/2012 09:56 Reply to this Report abuse
Mr.Patti - do you think all this will happen? People will first slip and fall when it rains on these granite slabs - if at all these are laid. Secondly this will find a lot of illegal takers - if they are of good quality they will dis-appear from these footpaths - like the iron manholes which have vanished.
Posted by WELL WISHER at 11/22/2012 15:00 Reply to this Report abuse
What chennai needs is "not Granite Footpaths", but just some space clearly marked as Footpath, free of any encroachment & parked vehicles. Chennai city roads have been shrinking from time to time & corporation has always overlooked the Parking & Footpath always, and didn't plan anything for them. Now the parking space is occupying pavements wherever available. Most in roads do not have anything called Footpaths, and even if available, they'd be uneven, leaving a Gap at every house entrance. Instead, roads should be laid from tip to tip on both sides and 4-5 ft iron rods can be planted at 2-3 feet from the road edge. Hence, vehicles wil be able to enter into them and pedestrians can walk without having to get down and climb up pavements every now & then. This would surely help senior citizens, providing them a safe way to walk through our City Roads.
Posted by JaG at 11/23/2012 09:56 Reply to this Report abuse
Adding to my post, we can find some similar temporary arrangement being made along the stretch where Metro construction is underway (in Mt road & PH Road). A temporary barricading is done providing spave for pedestrians to walk, using the existing road space, and providing a space for safe passage of pedestrians.
Posted by JaG at 11/23/2012 10:01 Reply to this Report abuse
Dear Well Wisher, I get your drift, I completely forgot about the "Taking Ways" (kindly excuse the pun) of the some of the people in our cities. Even if they don't use granite & use someother method of constructing these "Footpaths", the corporation should ensure that whoever digs up any area for whatever reason should bring the area that they have dug up to its original condition as soon as the job is completed. Even here a timespan should be allowed within which to complete the job failing which, the said party/parties should be made to pay a heavy fine for every day beyond the prescribed date. The main culprits for all this digging up of our roads and leaving them in an incompleted/bad state are the electricity, telephone and water authorities. Will they do it? is a milion dollar question. All these guys are hand in glove with all the corrupt activities that are taking place and we the tax payers are made to suffer. Am I right in stating this?
Posted by Pattibaraman at 11/23/2012 15:01 Reply to this Report abuse