Traffic congestion the only bane here

Chennai | Sunday | 19th March, 2017

Summary:

With the ECR running through these villages, traffic congestion, particularly during weekends, becomes uncontrollable, resulting in traffic jams. When it comes to civic infrastructure, the residents in the locality have few things to grumble except traffic congestion. M.

Rajeswari, a resident of Gowri Amman Kovil Street, said traffic congestion was one of the serious issues where the residents were finding it difficult to cross the roads safely because of speeding traffic at any point of time. While traffic congestion on ECR has been a persistent problem for several years, the residents are also upset by poor distribution of essential articles in ration shops and maintenance of street lights. He also pointed out that street lights were poorly maintained and do not function on several streets..