Chennai: Chennai roads resemble a war-torn area and it has become a sort of adventure for motorists to travel on damaged roads, PMK’s chief ministerial candidate Anbumani Ramadoss said in a letter to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
In a letter to Ms Jayalalithaa on Saturday, he sought seeking immediate repair of road before the onset of northeast monsoon. “In 2014, the city registered 9465 accidents in which 1,046 people were killed. Bad roads is the prime reason for the accidents,” he said.
Pointing out that maximum number of people in the city travel in two-wheelers, he said that riding in pothole ridded roads would give rise to problems like back pain and shoulder pain. “Even youths have started facing such problems. Besides health affects, the bad roads leads to accidents and traffic congestion,” he said.
Alleging that corruption as the main reason for bad roads in the city, Dr Anbumani said experts opine that if the roads are laid as per the Indian Road Congress standards, the road would not have been damaged so much. He noted that Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has instructed his state officials on September 29 to restore the damaged roads before the onset of monsoon. “But no such precautionary measures were being taken in Tamil Nadu,” he noted.
