Alwarpet Street in Alwarpet was once a residential locality. Today, almost the ground floor at every house has been taken on rent by commercial establishments. As a result, the street resembles an parking slot.
Residents have to squeeze in between parked vehicles to enter their houses. With vehicles parked on either side, the once-wide road has become extremely narrow. It is so narrow that a pedestrian and a motorcyclist cannot move side by side, on this stretch. One of them has to go behind the other.
Construction debris is found dumped at a certain point on the stretch. There is a scrap shop which keeps its metal items on the street. An auto-stand at the entrance of the street has occupied either side of the street, residents point out.
During emergencies, an ambulance or a fire-brigade cannot enter the stretch.
Another annoying issue is that garbage bins are not cleared at regular intervals. The garbage bin in Alwarpet Street is not capacious enough to take the waste generated by the households and commercial establishments, residents say. Garbage could be found strewn along the streets. “To put an end to the menace, I constructed a temple. Now, the garbage bin has been pushed near the entrance of Chennai Primary School. And the problem continues,” E. Muralidharan, a resident of B. M. Garden Street, Alwarpet, said.
