@reclaimchennai@RM_Harish_@EcrPSaravanann I believe it is because ECR P Saravanan is district secretary for Chennai Sub-Urban, so his face is bigger.
Anyways, this guys poster menace puts even DMK to shame. Even in areas near CM'S house, it's the same scene.
Wonder who funds this
@rupesh_0795@aravind The aesthetics of the airport means nothing. How many skybridges it has, how many gates, how many runways, total passenger capacity, expansion (future) capacity, connectivity are the things that matter.
Appreciate the aesthetics but we also need to discuss function
I once had a broker tell me - flooding happens. But it's just 10 to 15 days of inconvenience in a year and eventually infra would improve. But the discount is steep and I should invest.
I never did. I rented there. I couldn't accept the destruction we were causing to the ecosystem. Eventually moved out.
I never brought. But 1000's did.
Precisely, any flyover is a band-aid to circumvent 2 things.
1. Zero city planning. Areas with no inter-connectivity. Many dead end streets and interior streets totally encroached, pushing all traffic to main arterial roads.
2. Encroachments in the main road - which would exist because some councillor has been paid off.
Look at streets of Seattle vs Velachery.
Flyover because city is like a village with dead-end roads. Like it's a closed colony.
When there is no interconnectivity, flyovers are the only solution.
@dhanyarajendran@dhanyarajendran : Please someone make her understand that - people don't criticise her English. Tamilnadu doesn't do that.
They criticise her for being Cringe from Day 1.
Even if she speaks fluent French - people be like - "C'est trop cringe"
@YRanaraja@actorvijay Is he?
You should see the poster plastered all over - in the area where he resides (let alone the rest of the city).
Collective Civic sense of TN is equal to that of a cow right now .
He fired 5 shots. That's not self defense. That's shoot to kill. In my country, only Animals get shot like that.
He can fire at the knee or legs multiple times like a trigger happy goon or one body shot. Its not like humans will take one bullet and walk around. It's not walking dead
@UpdatesChennai The stench from the garbage in Pallikarani comes till ECR. If you are in ECR - near Kottivakkam, Pallavakkam, Thiruvanmiyur, Tharamani. You can feel the stench.
How on earth people pay crores for an apartment in Pallikaranai?
Access controlled highways is for faster, safer movement between cities. I don't have to worry about cows, human kids running in front of me (this happened to me in Andhra).
Unfortunately, access controlled roads are becoming a nightmare due to these squids ๐. Classic example is ORR in Hyderabad. Beautiful road with 120 kph speed limit and 4 wheeler only. But accidents have increased so much that Hyderabad had to put out an advisory warning against speeding.(which defeats the purpose of an access controlled road).
Speeding isn't an issue - we have seen that with Auto bahn. But in India, where human beings have the civic sense equivalent to that of a cow - it doesn't work.
Squids shift between lanes without signalling at 200 kph. It's a nightmare. What's supposed to be safer & faster becomes riskier for no fault of the ones who drive safely
@ragways@dmuthuk What's missing is enforcement.
As long as people know - they can bribe a local councillor or a DMK/ADMK functionary, they know they can encroach all they want.
What's TVK going to turn out to be - is yet to be seen!
@EcrPSaravanann is a menace. Poster menace has become far worse in areas around ECR near Kottivakkam, Palavakkam, Neelankarai & Thiruvanmiyur.
Strange that - right where the CM resides is where sticking posters has increased significantly.
Literally no difference between DMK & TVK in this one and right in the locality where CM resides too..
@TVKVijayHQ : Do u not notice this on your way to Secretariat everyday?
Ive been seeing this bus-stand since I was a kid. Since 1998, till now, nothing about it has changed.
There is no footpath & there has never been, in this entire stretch from Kakkan bridge till maduvankarai.
The road from Kakkan bridge till this bus stop has shrunk a lot due to encroachments though.
@ManikPrabh5134 All of those shops, stalls and encroachment will lead to a DMK or ADMK functionary. If neither, it will lead to a cop.
The physical manifestation of the consequence of corruption, is the ugliness of our city
@UpdatesChennai@CMOTamilnadu@TVKVijayHQ These people need to be punished as much as the DMK functionary. Knowing they are paying for an illegal food stall, they paid up. Now, crying foul since the govt changed. If it hadn't their encroached food stall would have continued on..
There is no anti pedestian and street vendor party unlike @arivalayam
Selling public streets and temple lands at 24k a month that does not even go to the govt's treasury but to their private pockets.
On top of this @TRBRajaa used to send his IT cell digital rowdys to silence anyone questioning the need for footpaths and removing illegal encroachments, because they were earning 2 lakhs a month, just from 8 vendors in a single street, now do the maths for all streets in ever city in TN.