In an effort to eliminate the bottlenecks hampering free flow of traffic on Avanashi Road, the City Police have embarked on a traffic management improvement plan.

The fund for this project was being sourced from Road Safety Fund of the Transport Department, police sources said.

On instructions from the City Police Commissioner, A.K. Viswanathan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Pravesh Kumar deputed the traffic wing to study the problems affecting the recently introduced Green Corridor system on Avanashi Road – for about 13.5 km from Avanashi Road flyover to SITRA Junction.

The study revealed problems relating to parking in school and hospital zones, pedestrian crossing, bus stops, and U-turns. Accordingly steps were taken to make adequate road space by removing unauthorised parking. As many as 39 authorised parking lots will be made available on the road, while 35 places are being turned into no-parking zones.

Parking lots

Police have identified space in front of police quarters near Uppilipalayam signal, SBI near Anna Statue, Police Recruit School, Lakshmi Mills Junction, TVS Nagar, SJB Show room, Varadaraja Mills, Padmavathy Ammal Cultural Centre, Hope College and near National Model School, Lakshmi Mills Junction and near GD Naidu Centre as parking space. Boards will be erected on all these places.

In addition, the entire stretch will get a fresh coat of rubber paint for lanes, yellow lines, stop lines and pedestrian crossing.

Similarly caution sign boards are being erected in respect of eight schools, ten hospitals, 58 pedestrian crossings, 44 speed limit indicators, 24 bus stop boards besides ten boards for U turns and 22 for no U turns. Similarly boards are being put up for educating the motorist on free left and no free left turn.

Police are also planning to have speed breakers/rumble strips at 22 places where there is scope for motorists to over speed and the nature of speed breaker and technical specifications are being decided in consultation with road engineering experts. Police sources said that by mid-March these improvement measures are likely to be in place to enhance the driving/riding experience on Avanashi Road.