Street in Kodambakkam insulated against crackdown

Chennai | Friday | 20th April, 2018

Summary:

We walk closely along the parked vehicles to avoid getting hit by motorists,” says K.

Gayathri, a resident of Kodambakkam. The 200-metre-long Puliyur First Lane in Trustpuram, Kodambakkam, has been left untouched by the Greater Chennai Corporation’s crackdown on abandoned vehicles, which is a month old. Repeated complaints by the residents to Zone – 9 (Kodambakkam) officials of Greater Chennai Corporation to remove these abandoned vehicles have gone in vain. And this is surprising, for both sides of the 30-feet-wide-Puliyur First Lane are lined with abandoned vehicles, some of them rusting away for years now. Of the eight streets, Puliyur First Lane alone faces this problem..