Swami Sivananda Salai vrooming into the spotlight
The Hindu
Formula 4 racing event track coming up in Chennai. Greater Chennai Corporation is undertaking work on this project at Swami Sivananda Salai that will host international motor-racing event
Swami Sivananda Salai is at the centre of an exercise to promote an annual motor-racing extravaganza.
According to a Greater Chennai Corporation official, Swami Sivananda Salai would continue to function as a road for regular vehicular traffic, except for two days in a year, when a Formula 4 racing event would come to these parts. Towards this end, Swami Sivananda Salai is undergoing striking modifications.
Swami Sivananda Salai would figure in a 3.7-km race track and this route includes snatches of neighbouring roads, notably Flagstaff Road and a part of Anna Salai (the section linking Flagstaff Road and Swami Sivananda Salai).
From what could be gathered from the GCC official’s account of the work at hand, Flagstaff Road will undergo the barest of bare modifications, just minor tweaks around the corners to blunt the edge.
The GCC official spells out the route: “Starting from the inside of Island Grounds, the racing vehicles would go to Flagstaff Road, and then into Anna Salai all the way up to Swami Sivananda Salai, roar down Swami Sivananda Salai, hit Napier Bridge and complete the lap by getting right back into Island Grounds.
The work is expected to be completed in the first week of December, the GCC official reveals.
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