Residents in Thillai Nagar and LIC Colony have started keeping count of a few things – the number of times people fell off their vehicles due to road condition, the number of days the roads have been in poor condition and the number of times the area Councillor (Ward 76) N. Chinnadurai gave them reasons for the roads being so.
A. Nataraj, a resident of LIC Colony, says that the roads are so bad that not a day passed without somebody falling off his or her vehicle. Senior citizens too had slipped and fell, thanks again to the road condition.
Thillai Nagar resident V. Baskar said that it had become a regular feature in the past two years ever since the Coimbatore Corporation dug up roads for laying underground drainage pipeline and constructing manholes in the area.
The result of the poor roads was that the residents of Sarojini Nagar, Raj Nagar, Lala Garden, Nehru Street, Indira Street, Rajiv Gandhi Street, a few other localities and the two main roads were unable to easily access the Selvapuram Main Road.
Worst affected were the school children as the van drivers and autorickshaw drivers refused to drive through the localities to pick up children at the doorsteps citing poor road condition, said a resident on condition of anonymity.
The Corporation dug up the road over a year-and-half ago for the UGD work. Since then his business had been affected, rued a two-wheeler mechanic S. Muruganandam. They did want their vehicles to be repaired and serviced as within minutes of driving away from the workshop, the vehicles turned dirty.
The residents said that they got in touch with the Councillor, Mr. Chinnadurai, who only kept assuring them that the civic body would soon lay roads.
They, however, were not ready to take his words as the civic body was yet to provide house service connections – lay pipelines from the underground drainage line to the houses.
Unless the civic body completed the house service connections it would not lay new road and that seemed unlikely anytime in the near future, said M. Navaneethakrishnan, another resident.
Efforts to reach Mr. Chinnadurai failed.
Corporation officials said they would address the issue at the earliest.
