CHENNAI: As part of the ongoing beautification drive in the city, the elected-council of the Chennai Corporation on Monday cleared the proposal to install new gantries, traffic signages and stainless steel name boards across the city. The project, aimed at enhancing the safety of road users and streamlining traffic movement, will cost Rs 12.23 crore to the exchequer.
"Girders with locale-specific display boards will be installed at 239 traffic intersections, while 1,083 main thoroughfares will get uniform stainless steel name boards. Besides, there will be a total of 3,957 traffic signages all along bus route roads," said mayor M Subramanian.
The signages, made of retro-reflective sheets with white background and blue border, will replace the rusted boards on the city's arterial roads. In the initial phase, new boards were installed in Anna Nagar.
The project has been taken up, following an extensive study carried out by the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre, which is part of the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, a few years ago. After studying the 304 km of bus route roads, the consultant suggested uniform rectangular signages for bus stops, airport, petrol bunks, pedestrian subways, hospitals and autorickshaw stands.
Signages and road-markings are based on the standards prescribed by the Indian Road Congress. A majority of the existing signages are put up near commercial establishments, with the help of local police, and do not adhere to rules. The retro-reflective signages will put an end this kind of advertising modules. The gantry girders and street names in stainless steeel will be uniform across the city. "Work orders will be issued to the contractors identified for the three programmes and the entire programme will be completed in two months," Subramanian said. "The street name boards for interior roads will be taken up later," he added.
NEW FLYOVER/SUBWAYS: Responding to CPM councillor Devi's allegations that the traffic projects taken up by the administration were moving at a snail's pace, Subramanian said the flyover at Rangarajapuram near Kodambakkam and the subways near Stanley Medical College and Villivakkam will be thrown open to traffic by March 31. Chief minister M Karunanidhi will open a bridge at Perambur Loco Works, built at the cost of Rs 9.25 crore, on February 5.
REVIEW PETITION: Subramanian said the Chennai Corporation would soon file a review petition in the Supreme Court on the construction of an underground automated parking system at the corporation playground on Venkatanarayana Road in T Nagar. The apex court, in October last, had dissmissed the corporation's petition against the Madras high court's order quashing the move as illegal
SOURCE: City to get new gantries, signages, street name boards - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/City-to-get-new-gantries-signages-street-name-boards-/articleshow/7399941.cms#ixzz1Cgs4oCYW
"Girders with locale-specific display boards will be installed at 239 traffic intersections, while 1,083 main thoroughfares will get uniform stainless steel name boards. Besides, there will be a total of 3,957 traffic signages all along bus route roads," said mayor M Subramanian.
The signages, made of retro-reflective sheets with white background and blue border, will replace the rusted boards on the city's arterial roads. In the initial phase, new boards were installed in Anna Nagar.
The project has been taken up, following an extensive study carried out by the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre, which is part of the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, a few years ago. After studying the 304 km of bus route roads, the consultant suggested uniform rectangular signages for bus stops, airport, petrol bunks, pedestrian subways, hospitals and autorickshaw stands.
Signages and road-markings are based on the standards prescribed by the Indian Road Congress. A majority of the existing signages are put up near commercial establishments, with the help of local police, and do not adhere to rules. The retro-reflective signages will put an end this kind of advertising modules. The gantry girders and street names in stainless steeel will be uniform across the city. "Work orders will be issued to the contractors identified for the three programmes and the entire programme will be completed in two months," Subramanian said. "The street name boards for interior roads will be taken up later," he added.
NEW FLYOVER/SUBWAYS: Responding to CPM councillor Devi's allegations that the traffic projects taken up by the administration were moving at a snail's pace, Subramanian said the flyover at Rangarajapuram near Kodambakkam and the subways near Stanley Medical College and Villivakkam will be thrown open to traffic by March 31. Chief minister M Karunanidhi will open a bridge at Perambur Loco Works, built at the cost of Rs 9.25 crore, on February 5.
REVIEW PETITION: Subramanian said the Chennai Corporation would soon file a review petition in the Supreme Court on the construction of an underground automated parking system at the corporation playground on Venkatanarayana Road in T Nagar. The apex court, in October last, had dissmissed the corporation's petition against the Madras high court's order quashing the move as illegal
SOURCE: City to get new gantries, signages, street name boards - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/City-to-get-new-gantries-signages-street-name-boards-/articleshow/7399941.cms#ixzz1Cgs4oCYW
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