‘Restore the lost carriageway on Station Border Road’
The Hindu
New stormwater drains have put pedestrians at jeopardy at Station Border Road in Kodambakkam, Chennai. Residents want Chennai Corporation to restore the lost carriageway
On Station Border Road in Kodambakkam, the elevated sections of the stormwater drain network (constructed last year) are sporting “footstools” (actually slopes).
Besides reducing the width of the road, these slopes are placing motorcyclists’ life and limb in jeopardy.
“Some residents have made makeshift slopes to take their vehicles inside railway quarters,” says a resident of the area.
There is an additional problem — the road shrinking due to the course taken by the elevated sections of the stormwater drain.
This problem is pronounced around the Kodambakkam Post Office, diagonally opposite the entrance to the Kodambakkam railway station.
Here, an elevated section of the stormwater drain seems to have been inspired by a graph displaying a kinked demand curve.
The drain takes a bend to skirt around a pair of e-toilets and leave them undisturbed. These two are among a raft of e-toilets from various addresses across Chennai that are long out of work. Habitues of Station Border Road note these e-toilets are in disuse for years.
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