‘CONTAIN YOUR TRAILERS OR FACE ROAD BLOCKADE’
Published Date: 27/Nov/2009 By G Saravanan Chennai, November 26: ENRAGED over the callous attitude of the Chennai Port Trust in easing trailer congestion on arterial Ennore Expressway, residents of Thiruvotriyur municipality on Thursday fired an ultimatum to the trust to set its container trailer yard right within a week and keep the road clear, or else they would block the entry of all container trailers after December 3. The port trust has never tried to understand the local peoples’ difficulties, as its container trailers fully occupy the expressway leaving hardly any space for other vehicles and public transports like MTC buses, the residents say. G Varadarajan, coordinator of North Chennai People’s Rights Federation, told Express, “the residents are peeved over the piling up of container trailers on the busy stretch almost every day.” Had the trust developed the container trailer yard properly, it would have considerably reduced parking of such trailers, which eat into more than ...