Summary:
As the temple of Lord Venkateswara is frequented by several high profile dignitaries, the Tirumala ghat roads rank first among the best maintained in the country. According to statistics, more number of accidents are registered on the first ghat road leading to Tirupati. The increase in the number of accidents has become a cause for concern to both the TTD as well as the pilgrims. more-inA journey through the Tirumala ghat roads, which otherwise should provide an exhilarating feeling to the pilgrims, chanting “Govinda, Venkataramana Govinda”, has, of late, turned out to be not so good experience with a spurt in the number of road accidents. Some motorists feel that the TTD could install “speed radar guns” at all the accident-prone points to check overspeeding instead of fixing the travel time on the ghat roads..