Chennai’s busiest subway connects Loyola College with Nelson Manickam road. It’s none other than the Choolaimedu subway. Being a part of various rallies and awareness campaigns and, not to forget, few of Tamil cinema’s sequences, this subway has by itself set a landmark in the city. The average users of this subway per day are larger than any other subway in the city.
6.00 a.m.: I find no traffic policemen, I breathe fresh air, I hardly see any traffic and most importantly I experience pleasure driving. However, the entire scenario changes during peak hours in the mornings and in the evenings. One experiences absolute chaos when he decides to use this subway when it’s in its peak. Furthermore its really very difficult to predict its peak hours cause u can find traffic at 8 am or earlier in the mornings and 10 pm or later in the evenings.
Trying to understand the nature for such chaotic situations is not very complicated. The prime reason for such a traffic snarl is A signal situated on the exit from the Loyola college side. One can clearly understand the fact by seeing a free flowing traffic on the other side of the road.
To add to the agony of the commuters, the Choolaimedu High Road, the arterial road for the residents at choolaimedu is also congested. Its so because there’s no right turn in the signal. So people just take a left from the signal, make a U-turn and proceed straight.
6.00 a.m.: I find no traffic policemen, I breathe fresh air, I hardly see any traffic and most importantly I experience pleasure driving. However, the entire scenario changes during peak hours in the mornings and in the evenings. One experiences absolute chaos when he decides to use this subway when it’s in its peak. Furthermore its really very difficult to predict its peak hours cause u can find traffic at 8 am or earlier in the mornings and 10 pm or later in the evenings.
Trying to understand the nature for such chaotic situations is not very complicated. The prime reason for such a traffic snarl is A signal situated on the exit from the Loyola college side. One can clearly understand the fact by seeing a free flowing traffic on the other side of the road.
To add to the agony of the commuters, the Choolaimedu High Road, the arterial road for the residents at choolaimedu is also congested. Its so because there’s no right turn in the signal. So people just take a left from the signal, make a U-turn and proceed straight.
The measures taken up by the authorities to reduce traffic were far too many. It includes activities from awareness campaigns, strict traffic vigilance to building a new subway – The Harrington subway. No use!!! Though this subway requires a lot of improvements on all aspects, its surely the most happening subway. It is Chennai’s The Subway, though for many reasons.
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