ExpertDabbler

Sometime last week I had, shall we say the pleasure, of taking the much talked about IT Highway to the Prathyangara Devi Temple in Shozhinganallur. To be honest, the road is really cool from Madhya Kailash to SRP Tools. Never mind the fact that it took them ages to complete that 2-3 km stretch.
But the deal, or rather the ordeal, begins after that point. Regular commuters on that road will agree if I say it has become progressively worse what it was 1.5 years ago.

Certain landmarks remain intact even while new others have cropped up. For eg, I checked out the spot bang opposite CTS in Thoraipakkam, the swimming pool was intact even 2 weeks after the last drop of rain. IT Highway? Oh yeah!

Keerthi once mentioned, “Andha road la bus shock absorber ku epdi behave panradhu ne therila PK. Front right wheel and rear left wheel um kuzhi la irukkum. Mitha rendu wheelum periya kal mela irukkum” It may sound impossible, but does well to communicate the true state of the road.

Perhaps the Government might think now that anyway the road is due for major facelift upto Siruseri, why spend time and money on repairing?

But I can assure you no software engineer worth his backache will live long enough to see the improved version, if the present roads are any indication.

As if this experience was not enough, I took the Perungudi - Pallavaram bypass while returning. Ah, how I wish better sense had prevailed.

What I kinda knew was, the stretch between Perungudi and Kamakshi Hospital is the dumping yard for South Chennai. What I did not know was the fact that one lane of the road being usurped by the dump yard (Infrastructure development?).

It’s almost impossible to breathe. I say almost, because I guess i somehow did and survived to write this. That was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Yeah, never again that road in my lifetime!

And what is the latest I hear? Our esteemed IT majors  has decided to build one of their IT parks exactly at that very auspicious place. Talk about strategic positioning.
And oh yeah, there are a couple of huge residential apartments and it’s rumored they sell about 2000 per sqft!

Read the title again.

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