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Road works taken up in Dindigul sans notice

— PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN.

HARDSHIP: Road laying in progress on North Car Street in Dindigul on Wednesday.

DINDIGUL: Traffic was affected on Palani Road, East and North Car Streets and New Pensioners’ Street as Dindigul municipality started re-laying these roads without taking any precautionary measure and prior notice on Tuesday night.

Not even a signboard was kept at these work sites to caution road users.

The worst affected is Palani Main Road. All light and heavy vehicles, including buses proceeding to Oddanchatram, Erode, Salem, Palani, Udumalpet, Coimbatore, Namakkal from Central bus stand were allowed to pass through this road.

With massive encroachments and parking of vehicles on both sides of the road, the road had been converted into one way. Allowing two-way traffic on this road on Wednesday causes much inconvenience to people.

Road-users have started facing an untold misery on the first of day of traffic diversion.

One mini-bus and a State Transport Corporation bus were collided on this road, owing to traffic congestion in the morning. Within a few hours, a car dashed against a two wheeler.

Vehicles were stranded on both directions of this road for more than three hours in the morning and evening. Free entry of lorries too worsened the situation. Already, all connecting small streets and lanes were in a highly damaged condition, owing to haphazard completion of underground drainage project work. With no way to go, residents, shop keepers and traders on East and North Car Street, New Pensioners’ Street, Chatram Street and Gopalasamudram Road face tough time in approaching the main road and Palani Road.

Why the Municipality has started pecking and grubbing Chatram Street, East and North Car Streets simultaneously without repairing highly-damaged alternative roads for traffic diversion, local residents questioned.

With no signboards at the entrance of these roads, riders reached half of the road and attempted to return.

The irony was that there was not a single traffic police to regulate traffic on these roads.

Already, several roads dug by the municipality for underground drainage project, were not renovated till date.

But the drainage project was not implemented in these roads so far, said the local people.

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