Advertisement Hoardings Encroach Upon Pavements

Most of the city’s pathways are unusable owing to advertisement hoardings.The misuse of pavements and the lack of any enforcement by the authorities concerned is most glaring in the context of money spent on pavements in recent times. The Chennai Corporation has spent crores in the last couple of years for laying granite and stone pavements in the city The Chennai Corporation will also start removing encroachments along pedestrian facilities based on a list submitted by the Traffic Police. As a step towards removal of encroachments, traffic police officials had initiated a survey of all the encroachments on footpaths along bus route roads in Chennai city.