Lanes on Paper Mills Road to prevent unnecessary vehicular movement

For a distance of 500 metres, Paper Mills Road near Four Cross Road junction has separate lanes for different vehicles. A special lane for walkers and cyclists is the highlight. The initiative — intro

For a distance of 500 metres, Paper Mills Road near Four Cross Road junction has separate lanes for different vehicles. A special lane for walkers and cyclists is the highlight. The initiative — introduced on June 14 when lockdown restrictions were eased — serves obvious purposes: regulating traffic flow, improving lane discipline and checking unnecessary movement of vehicles. Many motorists from Kolathur, Agaram, Madhavaram Milk Colony, Mathur, Moolakadai, Majambakkam, Red Hills and Puzhal use the stretch to get to the central parts of Chennai. The stretch also serves as a short route to reach the rest of the city, especially key roads like Anna Salai and Kamaraj Salai, making the travel easier than if one were to take the congested CTH Road and Konnur High Road.