Vehicle users forced to travel on badly damaged roads in Tirunelveli

Vehicle users forced to travel on badly damaged roads in Tirunelveli

With the official machinery not at all worried about the badly damaged roads of Tirunelveli City, mainly due to indefinitely dragging underground drainage work, the motorists, especially bike riders, women and the senior citizens are forced to travel along the stretches posing serious threat to their life.

Even though a few thousand students and hundreds of vehicles, including buses and trucks, are using the roads connecting Palayamkottai Police Station and St. John’s College and the road between Samathanapuram Junction and North High Ground Road via St. John’s College everyday, no step has been taken to even temporarily repair these roads to make it motorable.

The road between Palayamkottai police station and St. John’s College is used by at least 2,000 students going to two matriculation higher secondary schools, four higher secondary schools, each having a strength of over 2,500 students. However, this road remains neglected for the past few years, the teachers using this road complain.

“The Corporation is not even concerned about the sewage profusely flowing from a manhole in front of Clarinda’s Church near our school. Instead of repairing the manhole to check the overflowing drainage, the Corporation personnel dug a mini channel from the manhole on the already badly damaged road to connect it with the nearby drainage channel to drain the sewerage,” said a teacher from the government-aided school near St. Xavier’s Cathedral.

Similarly, the road laid a few months ago between Samathanapuram and North High Ground Road is in an awful condition due to poor quality and the underground drainage work.

“The Corporation, instead of waiting for cent per cent completion of work, should at least repair the badly damaged portions to ensure road-users’ safety,” said a professor with St. John’s College.