•Immediate solution for perungulathur will be demolishing the buildings and land space and compound walls immediately after perungulathur bus stop towards Villupuram to gain some space up to Shriram IT Gateway. You can gain some space by reducing width of the medians up to Vandalur. One side we have Railway station but we have not used the land or build road close to the compound wall to put to good use. We have space for one more bus to park also. The signal immediately near perungulathur is very small width and removing buildings and old police station building there will help get enough space to prevent traffic blockage as buses which enter GST again from bus stand. If in Medavakkam TN Govt can solve issue then in perungulathur also we can solve the cost of solution will be much cheaper compared to the 10 year old issue.
•There is a need for flyover/underpass at perungulathur starting at least 1 km away (small flyover will again lead to more traffic) for vehicles which need to cross this junction. This flyover will benefit trucks and cars which can cross with ease. The lack of Development of new IT companies post perungulathur is the fear that employees might not reach on time due to traffic jam preventing lack of investments in Guduvanchery and other areas as per previous expectations. If we use underpass it can exit post Guduvanchery or up to 1st toll in GST near Paranur with toll road underneath. Building underneath roads is common globally.
•The flyover in tambaram west side is being put to wrong use. The buses entering the tambaram west bus stand near railway station enter exactly near the mouth of the flyover leading to improper usage. The buses must enter the bus stand below the flyover at least 300 metres away from mouth to enable buses to enter and exit easily. The removal of temporary and movable medians at tambaram west causes difficulty for even buses to move easily. It seems like Traffic police have ill planned the entire process here. Drones will give a clear picture of the traffic to design better solutions.
•There is also need for flyover starting near tambaram west bus stand and crossing MEPZ signal to ease traffic congestion. Or independent flyovers/grade separators at tambaram west and MEPZ for ease of traffic during peak hours. Public feedback through press leaks important to judge public and media feedback. Press leaks will help.
•Need for foot over bridge at tambaram west and also extending existing subway in tambaram west which currently ends in west side of railway station to underneath the tambaram railway station to exit at tambaram east side. The FOB will help continuous flow of traffic and signal can be removed for continuous green. Since the signal is very close to flyover it affects flow of traffic. TN Govt must not go and keep asking Railways to share cost but independently do quickly as long time issue of traffic at tambaram and it has been like for decades. At least consider for implementing this low cost idea do get feedback from public. Public generally believe that whenever traffic police is not there the flow of traffic is good. It means they need more good training and scientific methods and drones to understand traffic pattern over weeks to get best solution.
•Need for FOB opposite pothys, T.Nagar for public to cross road. The traffic police has to stop traffic every few minutes for public to cross road. If FOB is there parallel to flyover from Nalli to Saravana store side and traffic police ensures non stop flow of traffic it will reduce traffic blocks. Also have lifts for old and disabled to use FOB more as our people have become lazy to walk on steps. There is not enough space to build FOB like in MEPZ, Sanitorium but a mini FOB to easy flow of traffic will help. It is a simple solution but TN police has so many officer I don’t know what they did for so long. Or did Govt and Chennai corporation did not want to fix issue. The T.Nagar shops pay so much tax and every festive season the traffic jam causes lot of issues. Chennai corporation keeps saying we are going to build flyover to ease traffic but FOB will ease traffic immediately and you will see benefit in long run.
•Do ask govt officials and ministers to leak news on what govt is planning to do on the above issues. Then based on feedback the best solution can be taken up forward. Public would also like to know why above methods were not adopted or even considered for several years now. TN must allow govt officials and ministers to talk out of turn on issues and possible solutions. This will help get feedback to take a good decision. But neither govt officials nor ministers leak any new development projects to any newspaper or media leading to lack of feedback and govt implements something and the public feedback is not considered. So before implementing news leaks will help to get feedback. The govt instead of firing any minister or transferring officials can say like “We have not yet decided it is just a possible thought.”. There is nothing wrong in trying new things. There is nothing wrong in stopping a bad project by feedback. There is nothing wrong in rolling back some changes which have not been beneficial. It is not that any decision has been taken is final. It is not that nobody should make mistakes. It is how fast we correct the mistakes is important. How proactively new methods are adopted. If govt is very confident that it will be success then they should proceed irrespective of the concerns raised in the hope it will benefit thousands of public.
•Newspapers will easily print if officials or lower level staff have contacts with journalists and inform the plans. The journalist will just put as top sources confirmed so no issues. The news leaks methods should be adopted for other long standing issues also.
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