Motorists taking Indira Gandhi Road, Bajanai Kovil Street and Pillayar Kovil Street in Pallavaram have too much of a good thing — between them, there are 10 speed-breakers.
These speed-breakers are too high and motorists who negotiate them land with a discomfiting thud.
Moreover, speed-breakers have not been constructed near the streetlights on Bajanai Kovil Street and at the intersection of Indira Gandhi Road, Acharya Tulasi Road and Bazaar Road, Pallavaram.
Also, there are no warning boards indicating that there are speed-breakers ahead. Cyclists and motorcyclists bear the brunt of the problem.
“Every day, many motorists use these stretches to reach Pammal, Pozhichalur, Anakapathur, Kundrathur, Avadi and Poonamallee. With vehicular traffic on Indira Gandhi Road moving at a snail pace, encroachments by commercial establishments and haphazard parking of vehicles and the surfeit of speed-breakers make driving an arduous task,” says P. Raj, a resident of Pozhichalur.
One of the officials from the State Highways Department says, “The local body has laid the speed-breakers without consulting us. Steps will be taken to remove speed-breakers that are found short of the norms specified by the Indian Road Congress.”
