Is Anna Street in Thiruvanmiyur having an ‘extended monsoon’?

The monsoon has long retreated, but the tractor rolled into Anna Street in Thiruvanmiyur to check waterlogging stays put. It stands within a hair’s breadth of the compound wall of Kalakshetra Foundation’s craft centre, just across its main campus. Oddly, the tractor still wears the banner proclaiming its service to Greater Chennai Corporation’s flood mitigation work in 2025. The machine has obviously tarried longer than it should on a narrow but significant link road where motorists are often cramped for space. For all practical purposes, the tractor is an “abandoned vehicle”. GCC is comfortable with the tractor’s presence, as also with a white cab with flat tyres standing abandoned on the other side of the road, the side where parking is allowed. On any other road, vehicles cooling their tyres indefinitely might be viewed without a pained look, but not on Anna Street its girth disproportionately narrow to the volume of traffic it entertains.