No footpath for pedestrians as unauthorised squatters rule in Chennai
CHENNAI: Almost all footpaths in the city have been rendered useless, used for everything except for walking, but the corporation continues to build more. Experts say enforcement of rules is the key to ensuring they remain free of encroachments, but little is being done in this regard.
In the last five years, crores of rupees spent on laying footpaths in places like MMDA Colony in Arumbakkam, Rattan Bazaar Road, Canal Bank Road in Adyar, Arya Gowda Road in West Mambalam, Anna Nedunsalai in Perungudi and Mylapore have gone down the drain, with some taken over by parked twowheelers, others blocked by street lights and utility boxes and many encroached by hawkers and shops.
