Friday, July 30, 2010

Public toilet on Thiruvika Bridge

By Anirudh Ramesh

The always busy and lifeline, connecting Adyar to Mylapore, the Thiruvika Bridge presents an unhygienic and a despicable picture of late with the public using it as a toilet to relieve themselves all through the day.

The corporation of Chennai and the MTC joined together, some months back and widened the road near the Annai Sathya College and constructed a bus stand, with a bus bay to ease the traffic congestion, which was the order of the day before, with buses stopping right on the middle of the road, at the entrance of the college. After the shifting of the bus stand and the bus bay, the traffic has eased to a great extent but, it has given rise to people parking their vehicles, at the entrance of the bridge, near the bus bay and using it as a (open) public toilet. This defeats the very purpose of constructing a swanky looking bus shelter, since, commuters have to put up with the stench of urine all day long.

Will the zone X corporation officials look in to this and restore the portion of the bridge that is the entrance to Adyar, to its old glory?

Another suggestion would be to construct a public toilet.