Vehicles take 'short cut' and create traffic jams in colony

Reported by Rhea Banerjee

Problems created by increasing flow of traffic in Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Main Road have increased considerably. Every evening, 6 pm onwards, there are traffic jams, with drivers blaring their horns noisily. On some evenings, there is total mayhem on the road.

These traffic jams are caused because motorists/drivers choose to use this main road as a shortcut to the East Coast Road (ECR) instead of going via Lattice Bridge Road. People enjoy the convenience of skipping all the signals on that main road.

The traffic jams take place because the road in Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar is barely 20 feet wide and it does not have a proper sidewalk. Cars have to avoid people walking on the road and the erratically placed Onyx dustbins.

The biggest bottleneck is at the end of the road at the Sivakamipuram Street junction. Two garbage bins placed on the curves makes it hard for cars to turn.

Says Dr. Rajagopal, a resident here, "I have lived here for twenty years and have never faced such traffic problem. This place once used to be very quiet." Another local resident, Srinivasan, says that sometimes he finds it practically impossible to take his car out of his garage.