[1]At least more than a lakh people throng Chennai Central railway station, Government General Hospital and the Park Railway station junction every day as they are important transit points in the city.
But a majority of them walk on the arterial Poonamallee high road, a busiest thoroughfare that links Chennai to its western suburbs and finally gets connected to Bengaluru. Three years back the corporation had removed encroachments along the footpaths.
But, for last eight years the junction has not witnessed any major development to help the public despite a massive surge in footfall.
“Thousands of passengers commute through the suburban trains and depend on the footpaths and the pedestrian subway to reach the nearby MTC bus stands. During peak hours there is no space to walk,” laments Ms. Kanchana Mala, a government school teacher at Royapettah.
“The corporation in co-ordination with the city police has been clearing the encroachments on a regular basis but only after the completion of the proposed metro rail new schemes can be taken up at the junction,” a senior corporation official said.
The railways mooted world-class railway station for Chennai Central, which promised walkways and elevators at the junction, but the project is yet to take off.
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