The protest in Chennai in the Taluk Office Road almost jammed the traffic nearly three hours with the traffic police department changing the diversions of the traffic over this road completely . One of the commuter reported saying that it took her nearly one hour to travel from Guindy to Anna University area in Chennai and also felt down with the act of the people held responsible for the protest which disturbed the commuters during peak hours. The residents belonging to Venkatapuram in Saidapet have said to start this protest against the construction of a foot over bridge on Taluk Office Road and also on the removal of the pedestrian signal near by the Saidapet magistrate court.
Foot over Bridge (FoB) that is said to be constructed nearly eight months ago is hardly serving any purpose to the pedestrians they informed and also instead the signal should be re installed and maintained by the police. Additional commissioner of traffic police, Sanjay Arora reported saying, that even 40-second traffic signal would back the traffic for half a kilometer and also protest by the public like this over the roads during peak hours would leave them completely helpless over them, he added. The south zone assistant commissioner of traffic police V K Surendranath reported saying that the traffic over this junction came to an ease only after three hours until then the traffic at these junctions were left helpless from the department.
The foot over bridge is located about 100 meters away from the bus stand and court which itself is the major backdrop and for now the traffic authority has installed the signal back near this junction. However the higher officials have come up to a decision of concluding this with a permanent solution to slow down the vehicle speeds over this road which is said to be completely chaotic. Meanwhile the Foot over bridges seems to be a patronage in the Chennai City.Subways and foot over bridges with ramps would be a better option to pull down this major issue in the city, shared Surendranath with the media.
