CHENNAI: Residents of Varadarajpet Main Road in Choolaimedu have been keeping count of the days since their street was scrapped up to be relaid by the city corporation. “It was dug up on August 11. Since then the road has been in terrible shape. It has been 47 days,” said R Rangarajan, a resident of the street for 34 years.
Around 150 families in the stretch have been affected due to the delay in relaying the stretch. Residents said this has left them vulnerable to accidents. “You cannot even walk on the street; you could lose balance and fall. By scrapping the road, they’ve also exposed the power cables running underground. A few days back, there was a water leak from one of the houses and it was a good thing that no one stepped on the cables or else they might have been electrocuted,” said Andrew Vincent, another resident.
