Chennai: The accident was riding on a national highway on the outskirts of the city because the street lights had blinked on a lot of stretches.
Chennai bypass road (NH-32), which connects Tambaram with Maduravoyal, does not have a street lights 13 years after TSTRETCH 32km is placed.
Photos taken at Vanagaram Toll Plaza (above) and kidaputhur – separate points on the 32-km bypass road – show how dangerous stretch becomes when the darkness of descendsphotos taken at Vanagaram Toll Plaza (above) and anakiPuthur – separate points across Bypass 32- Km Road – shows how dangerous stretching to when the darkness of Descendschennai bypass road is one of 57 stretches chosen by the Ministry of Union for road transportation and highways to be developed as ‘national highway’.
This stretch should have all the safety features as a road sign, intersection and entry point / out.
But no one from this happened, and the number of accidents continued to increase.
About 30 accidents are reported on this highway every year; Nearly 40% of them occur between 6pm and 6 in the morning, official data said.
Those who use the road have horror stories to be told.
Road service is incomplete on the one hand.
Vehicles that come from Maduravoyal cannot use the bridge because of this, “said Yuvaraj from the Association of the owner of Tamil Nadu Lorry.
The official said the lighting was part of the approved project.” Lighting is included in the cost estimate for the development of Chennai bypass path as a stretch model, “said S Janakumaran, director of the project with NHAI.” Cost estimates are submitted to competent authority and approval for the same thing awaited, “he said in a written reply at the request under information on information (RTI).
Acting on August 23.
Every year, NHAI collects at least Rs 40 Crore because of the user’s fees from the gate Tolls have become more like urban roads used mainly by Tambaram and porur residents, “Yuvraj said.
Likewise, in the stretch of Tambaram-Chengalpattu highway, road lights remain dysfunctional near Singapaumalkoil for months.
A nd nhai blamed him with a lack of skilled labor because of a pandemic.
Road users also complained about the stretch of Highway Chennai-Bengaluru, where the work expansion work was ongoing, was illit.
This makes a multiple dangerous motor.
“In the absence of lighting right on the road, headlamps upcoming vehicles are blind drivers.
The night drive on the outskirts of Chennai has become dangerous,” said R Varadhan, a resident poonamalle.
Traffic police said some motorists hit livestock which deviated to the road in the absence of barricades.
The last week, a 44-year-old businessman from Kancheepuram died after his car crashed into a while trying to avoid a cow on the road.