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.