Busy road needs a healing touch

As the rainy season is over, residents want the State Highways to relay a stretch of the Sholinganallur-Medavakkam High Road

Though the pipe-laying work by the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) on Sholinganallur-Medavaklkam High Road was completed months ago, the exercise has not reached its logical end. The road, which comes under the State Highways Department, still bears the telltale signs of the civic work — from Medavakkam to Perumbakkam. Due to its condition, this stretch of the road poses a huge threat to the safety of pedestrians and motorists.

“In the first week of August 2021, the CMWSSB dug up a portion of the road. That is along the pedestrian space. Now, it is more than two months since the work got completed. But until now, the dug-up portion has not been relaid. As the rainy season is over, we want the highways department to relay the road without much delay,” says N Nalla Sivam, a resident of Perumbakkam.

As per the plan, the CMWSSB is laying drinking water pipes from the desalination plant in Nemilichery to Pallavaram through Sholinganallur-Medavakkam High Road covering Sholinganallur, Perumbakkam, Jalladiampet and Medavakkam. Except for the Sholinganallur section, the work has been completed on all sections of the road.