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Infractions: 0/1 (5) | ![]() Having observed the diversion from my grand stand vantage point for the past four hours, I don't think there is going to be any undue snarls at the exit just before the bridge. Though the acid test will be the evening peak hour traffic. The new road inside the university premises seems to be a lot better than the one outside! |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Yeah, pretty dangerous driving. Can't imagine the disastrous results for them/others if things went wrong. |
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| ![]() I am driving on OMR now and the taxi guys are far worse than I remembered. Even if I want to drive in decent fashion, these guys bring out the animal in me. |
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| ![]() yes, there is a small bridge(strangly it is called Wooden Bridge for some reasons which i guess as narrow as bridge itself), I use to take this route sometimes when i want to drop my daughter in School and want to reach there fast and free! but only with my Scooter, with car i have seen some guys crossing the bridge and i would say one can do that safely but then the road is really bad and non-existent, so whatever you will gain by shortcut would be lost in potholes. I would say give it a try. Last edited by Suess : 3rd August 2011 at 16:44. |
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| ![]() Thanks, Suess, that's exactly what I needed to know. I won't do it then. Sometimes, when the Kandanchavadi road was blocked by perpetual roadworks, I would take the small road that comes to the MGR Main Road junction to reach the Canalpuram road, but the roads are, especially in wet weather, only really suitable for trucks. |
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Infractions: 0/1 (5) | ![]() ^^ I cross this spot at 5.45 PM and there is only a slight backing up of traffic. May be delays me by 2 - 3 minutes more than usual. |
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My usual bridge is Palavakkam (Kandanchavadi) (being rebuilt). The roads are narrow but ok. We are talking about a few km further South of that. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() There was a bad accident today at the Cenatoph Road flyover by around 8:45PM. All I could see was a car facing the opposite direction with the headlights ON as I took the road below the flyover. An ambulance was rushing to the spot while I was waiting at the Chamiers Road signal. Anyone got info on this? |
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| ![]() Off-late i have visited Chennai ( Korattur - Ambattur - Kodambakkam - Neelankarai and other adjoining areas ) frequently. And everytime i am there, thats the only time my friends collection of VW's move out of his garage for my regular run-about. People have no respect to the fellow motorist, forget the poor soul on foot. ![]() One word to describe - INDISCIPLINED. When i started debating this with my friend who sat with me as a co-driver, He says " PAVAN, This is Chennai, nothing can ever be done." ![]() |
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There was a road engineering study in UK, a while back, that showed that people tended to drive more safely when they could see the dangers, so over-engineering and trying to design the dangers out with lanes, barriers, etc, actually made people drive less safely. If they did that study in India, I guess the conclusions would be quite different ![]() | |
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