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The Deccan Chronicle  21.10.2010

Oct. 20: A massive drive has been launched to relay roads and finish pending roadwork before the monsoon sets in. After a brainstorming session on Wednesday, the corporation’s top brass decided to take up the work on a war-footing. Inaugurating the drive at Valluvarkottam on Wednesday, Mayor M. Subramanian said the corporation would spend Rs 7.50 crore to relay and repair battered roads. On the instructions of chief minister M. Karunanidhi to repair the roads, the corporation had so far identified as many as 314 battered bus routes in the city.

Repair work on 4.12 lakh squares of various roads will be taken up, the total cost for which will be Rs 11 crore. To ensure early completion of the project, the corporation has appointed 10 superintending engineers as nodal officers for the operation. Within 10 days, roads will be identified and repaired with corporation men working round the clock. The corporation website will keep the public posted on the repair work.

Work is underway in several places and tenders have been settled for stretches on which work is yet to begin. Thiruvottiyur High Road, Cemetery Road, NSC Bose Road, Paper Mills Road, Bharathi Salai, Valluvarkottam High Road, Gandhi Irwin Road, Velachery High Road, Anna Nagar Second and Third Avenue, Pallavan Salai, GN Chetty Road, Usman Road, Nelson Manickam Road, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Sardar Patel Road, Kodambakkam High Road, Ashok Pillar Road, Muthulakshmi Salai and Dr Ambedkar Colle Road are among the prominent roads that have been identified for repair.

However, senior corporation engineers warned that prevailing weather conditions in Chennai are not conducive for major roadwork and the repairs could be disrupted by sudden rain. The corporation has also not finalised a schedule for the relaying of interior roads, which are in equally bad shape after the recent showers.

The Hindu  20.10.2010

Repair work begins on bus route roads

Staff Reporter

NEW LOOK: A portion of the Valluvar Kottam High Road repaired on Tuesday by Chennai Corporation.

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation on Tuesday started repair works on 314 bus route roads across the city.

Though rough patches measuring 4.12 lakh sq m have been identified for the purpose, it proposes to complete the work on 1.44 lakh sq m before the onset of the northeast monsoon, which is a few days away. The remaining work would be undertaken if the weather is conducive or after the monsoon. The repair work on various roads of the 10 zones is estimated to cost Rs.11 crore and would be carried out only in the night.

Hot mix, from the Corporation's Central Asphalt Plant, was used to repair 1,700 sq m roads on the first day. Over 4,500 sq m of patches were repaired by contractors.

Many of the 1,660 patch works have been necessitated because of road cuts made by the utility service providers and the recent rains.

The roads where repair work started on Tuesday included Valluvar Kottam High Road, G.N.Chetty Road, Kodambakkam High road, Gandhi Irwin Road, Tiruvottiyur High road, Cemetery Road, Pallavan Road, Nelson Manickam Road, Barathi Salai, Sardar Patel Road, Gandhi Mandapam Road and DGS Dinakaran Road.