Mayor's swift action clears traffic
Road-users who were facing a tough time after the Kulavanigarpuram manned level crossing was abruptly closed for construction of a rail over bridge, without a service road being provided, has been opened again, thanks to the swift action taken by Mayor Vijila Sathyananth.
Even before the construction materials arrived and ground breaking work for the pillars of the proposed rail over bridge commenced, the manned level crossing on the Tirunelveli – Nagercoil National Highways was closed and no step was taken to provide a service road to ensure the free flow of traffic – a procedure normally done whenever a busy thoroughfare is closed for maintenance or for carrying out new construction activities.
The narrow battered roads identified as ‘alternative routes' for traffic diversion too irritated the road-users.
When complaints started pouring in from road users, Ms. Vijila inspected the battered alternative roads through which the vehicular traffic had been diverted following the closure of the rail level crossing at Kulavanigarpuram.
Witnessing the problems being faced by the road-users , Ms. Vijila immediately contacted the officials concerned, including Collector R. Selvaraj and made arrangements for re-opening the closed level crossing.
“Though this is only a makeshift arrangement, vehicular traffic via Kulavanigarpuram level crossing will be allowed until a service road is provided for vehicular traffic,” the Mayor said.
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