Road users seek traffic signals at Thiruverkadu junction
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Fraught with danger. Photo: D. Madhavan
On his bicycle, 13-year-old K Akash waits for his turn to cross the busy Avadi-Poonamallee High Road, near the renovated bridge in Thiruverukadu.
Thanks to the continual vehicular flow through the narrow intersection, crossing the road is no easy task. After having waited impatiently for the fast-moving traffic to ease, Akash decides to weave his way through it.
A speed breaker and a traffic police personnel at the intersection do not prove to be of much assistance to road users like Akash as they try to cross the stretch, especially during rush hour. Walkers and motorists want a digital traffic signal and the existing bus stop on the stretch to be relocated.
Work on bridge in Thiruverkadu to be completed ‘in the next few months’
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The work on the high-level bridge across Cooum river near S.A. Engineering College in Thiruverkadu on Avadi – Poonamallee High Road (SH-55) is entering the final stretch. The decades-old bridge collapsed in the 2015 floods cutting off many big neighbourhoods, including Thiruverkadu, Poonamallee, Avadi, Thirunindravur, Pattabiram and Tiruvallur from the rest of Chennai.
The bridge is high up on the list of much-awaited projects, as the five-kilometre-long stretch is the shortest route for goods-laden lorries and other container trucks from the industrial units in Irungattukottai, Sriperumbudur, Oragadam on Chennai – Bangalore Highway (NH-04) to reach the Kolkata Highway (NH-05) via the Chennai – Tiruvallur High (CTH) Road. Many residential apartment complexes are being constructed on the stretch due to affordable housing and lower pollution levels.