Speed-breakers under scanner
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Just a day before the tragic death of Tamizhmani, son of minister Sellur K. Raju, Chennai mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy had pulled up the corporation officials at Ripon Buildings to ensure that the speed-breakers in the city were safe for motorists, recalls a corporation official.
The minister’s son died on Sunday night and during the Saturday review meet, the mayor spoke about the road conditions and existing speed-breakers that were mostly unfriendly and dangerous to motorists.
In fact, he directed the bus route roads department to improve the quality of city roads and analyse the existing speed-breakers.
Now, with the safety – or lack of it - of two-wheeler riders being widely reported by the media, and the city police intensifying the drive against riders without helmets, the corporation has started studying all the speed-breakers and corrections are to be made quickly, the official added.
“Most of the speed-breakers are death traps for young two-wheeler riders who zip through the city roads and 70 per cent of the people involved in bike accidents die due to head injuries,” opines a forensic expert who has served at the GH morgue.
“A drive along KK Nagar and Kodambakkam in south Chennai will reveal how dangerous the speed-breakers are. It’s high time the corporation did something about it,” opined Mr C.L. Sridhar, a resident of KK Nagar.
When contacted, mayor Duraisamy said one of the prime instructions of the chief minister to the civic body was to improve the quality of city roads and improve safety.
Preliminary works to streamline the speed-breakers have already begun and the death of Tamizhmani was unexpected and a huge loss.
He also advised that motorists should be more cautious. On its part, the corporation recently launched roads with plastic and cement content to negate potholes and improve safety, the mayor added.
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