Nearly six months after a small traffic island was constructed at the Singanallur Junction - 2013 to ease traffic - 2013 it was removed last week as it added to the congestion proving it to be a case of cure being worse than the disease.
The island, in fact, made it tougher for the roads users and traffic police due to its location on the junction that actually made it difficult to manoeuvre for the motorists and slowed down the traffic flow.
A few concrete structures similar, to a median, were also attached to the traffic island. This occupied a sizeable portion of the road and also reduced motorable space on the junction, when the vehicular movement was actually on the rise. The eastern side of the city was seeing mushrooming of residential colonies and this stretch is the gateway to enter the city.
With the median and island occupying a few metres stretch on the middle of the busy Trichy Road, vehicles from Ondipudur to Ramanathapuram direction and vice versa got stagnated at the junction near that island and affected the movement of vehicles on the other directions as well. Following complaints, it was removed on the directions of the City Police Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic). Over the last few days, the absence of the traffic island and medians has made a difference at the junction.
The island, in fact, made it tougher for the roads users and traffic police due to its location on the junction that actually made it difficult to manoeuvre for the motorists and slowed down the traffic flow.
A few concrete structures similar, to a median, were also attached to the traffic island. This occupied a sizeable portion of the road and also reduced motorable space on the junction, when the vehicular movement was actually on the rise. The eastern side of the city was seeing mushrooming of residential colonies and this stretch is the gateway to enter the city.
With the median and island occupying a few metres stretch on the middle of the busy Trichy Road, vehicles from Ondipudur to Ramanathapuram direction and vice versa got stagnated at the junction near that island and affected the movement of vehicles on the other directions as well. Following complaints, it was removed on the directions of the City Police Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic). Over the last few days, the absence of the traffic island and medians has made a difference at the junction.