For my second blog, I would like to write about retro reflective sign boards. The local administration during the erstwhile DMK regime had, in the final months of their tenure, decided to change the existing concrete street signs to retro-reflective stainless steel sign boards. In the first phase in 2011, over 1000 important roads across Chennai sported these boards. Months later, there was a change in the administration, when the AIADMK came to power. They suspected corruption in the retro reflective sign boards project, and decided to paint the sign boards on the walls of houses as illustrated in the…
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For my second blog, I would like to write about retro reflective sign boards. The local administration during the erstwhile DMK regime had, in the final months of their tenure, decided to change the existing concrete street signs to retro-reflective stainless steel sign boards. In the first phase in 2011, over 1000 important roads across Chennai sported these boards. Months later, there was a change in the administration, when the AIADMK came to power. They suspected corruption in the retro reflective sign boards project, and decided to paint the sign boards on the walls of houses as illustrated in the…
Read moreFor my first post, I’ve decided to chronicle the three-year struggle to get Corporation of Chennai to provide a raised permanent concrete median opposite the Perambur Railway Station extending upto Adayar Ananda Bhavan, covering Venkatraman Canal Street and Perambur High Road intersection, similar to the median installed opposite to the Railway Kalyana Mandapam on Perambur High Road. In April 2015, residents from Perambur filed petitions with the Corporation of Chennai asking them to replace the existing median made up of concrete blocks. The centre median made up of concrete blocks had surfaced or carpeted with the level of road due…
Read moreFor my first post, I’ve decided to chronicle the three-year struggle to get Corporation of Chennai to provide a raised permanent concrete median opposite the Perambur Railway Station extending upto Adayar Ananda Bhavan, covering Venkatraman Canal Street and Perambur High Road intersection, similar to the median installed opposite to the Railway Kalyana Mandapam on Perambur High Road. In April 2015, residents from Perambur filed petitions with the Corporation of Chennai asking them to replace the existing median made up of concrete blocks. The centre median made up of concrete blocks had surfaced or carpeted with the level of road due…
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