CHENNAI: Over the past week, the city corporation patched up potholes at around 2,000 locations, spanning around 30,000 square feet, senior corporation officials told TNIE. The civic body began taking up road maintenance works from Tuesday, a day after a 32-year-old man was run over by a bus after his bike hit a pothole.
Although the road where the accident occurred was maintained by the State Highways department, the city corporation had taken up filling potholes in the city ever since, and allocated `10 lakh each for all the 15 zones for this purpose. A survey by the civic body had revealed 942 roads in the city were in need of maintenance works.
