The Greater Chennai Corporation plans to construct three new bridges
in the city. The bridges department, which had executed only a handful
of projects in the last 10 years under the AIADMK government, has
proposed to build bridges which had been pending for a long time to ease
traffic congestion.

A senior official said as the city had
expanded, more bridges were needed in congested old areas. Bridges were
planned to be built at the Ganesapuram subway and the crowded Otteri
junction. Plans were on to extend the flyover on Usman Road to be linked
to Anna Salai.

The civic body has done an initial study and has
found the need for the flyover at Usman Road to be extended till Anna
Salai as the T. Nagar junction had been witnessing heavy traffic.

Since
T. Nagar had transformed into shopping hub from a residential locality,
the South Usman Road was becoming congested due to the presence of
several textile showrooms. Also, the location of the T. Nagar bus
terminus near the junction added to the problems.

Despite
the flyover South Usman Road, traffic jams occurred on Madley Road, CIT
Nagar 1st Main Road, and CIT Nagar 4th Main Road. The civic body had
designed a new flyover to link the ramp portion of the existing flyover
on South Usman Road, which is 747 m long and 11 m wide, and proceeded
above the CIT Nagar 1st and 4th Main Road junctions. Also provision for
two ramps was to be made for motorists to have smooth access to the
Burkit Road junction.

The civic body plans to build two-lane
carriageways at Konnur High Road and Strahans Road junction to ease
traffic congestion on Strahans Road, Brickiln Road and Cooks Road. The
proposed flyover would be 540 m long and would have a service road and
pavement on both sides. Similarly, the residents of Perambur and
Vyasarpadi had been demanding a bridge to replace the Ganesapuram
subway, which got waterlogged during heavy rain.