Lack of vehicular and pedestrian signals make navigating the intersection of New Street and Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road, Alandur, a nightmare.
Motorists coming from New Street halt in the middle of GST Road to enter the underpass of Kathipara flyover, taking motorists coming from Guindy and Little Mount by surprise. Similarly motorists coming from Little Mount and Guindy enter New Street and proceed towards Saint Thomas Mount. Lack of traffic signals at the intersection is often the reason for a chaotic situation there.
As can only be expected, lack of signals makes things more difficult for pedestrians than motorists.
A traffic police personnel at a police booth (attached to S11 Saint Thomas Mount) at the intersection remains a mute spectator to traffic violations. In the absence of a zebra-crossing and a pedestrian signal, pedestrians are forced to dodge speeding vehicles. A similar situation prevails at the intersection of GST Road and Vembuli Subedar Street, Alandur.
“Motorists from Alandur and Guindy do not bother to stop at the intersection. Only if signals are installed at the intersection, movement of vehicles could be regulated. Given the volume of vehicles passing through the intersection every day, steps must be taken to install pedestrian and vehicular signals at the earliest,” says P. Sathya Narayana, a resident of Guindy.
