Road repair, school children parents in trouble

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, P&T colony junction, traffic jam

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, P&T colony junction, traffic jam

This event is near belly area of AnnaNagar, this morning 8:30 AM, Chinmaya Vidyala school and P&T quarters, One side of the road has been completely dug till the end of the road to facilitate cables. And there is huge traffic Jam happens right at this junction.

The request is to complete a portion of work, at least near this junction ASAP so that children and parents do not have be late to school and work.

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Velachery platform crowded

Click on the Photos for a larger version. Enjoy the slice of velachery, chennai taken at different periods of time. So I keep varying about the subject. So kindly bear with me.

Topic 1:

From Vijaynagar bus stand to Velachery Railway station you will be amused to see the number of shops propping up on a day today basis, after the railway station started to function.

Where is the platform?
Remembering to story of hoarding in Chennai, which added some distractions and vivid colors, Currently helping us to get some cool breeze. I am wondering what happened to the people who were involved in that business. After many years of livelihood a simple rule just took away their work.

I wish the same shouldn’t happen to the vendors of velachery. Either follow rules so that they are not affected after years.

By the way, I Wonder these shop keepers pay the tax and if they did, does it reach the right authorities of the Government or Chennai Corporation. End of the day, people complain about IT professionals and the salaried people who pay the tax, for all the rise in price etc etc. Have we ever worried about the tax payers.

Topic 2:

People can’t control and take a leak here, near Sutherland technologies pavement. You need to have blocked nose to walk on this area of pavement. There is no public toilet around in this huge stretch.

Parking right under the no parking zone is actually fun.

Topic 3:

Irony is about these Auto Drivers who park the autos on the pavement or sometimes they even ride on the opposite side of the road, they will even give you a jolt by honking  and even give you a bewildered look while they pass by.

And some times you will find the lawman very much following the rules.

Technorati Tags: velachery, Chennai, shops, vendors, platform, fish market, autoricksaw, public toilet

Steps showing pointers – Chennai subway

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The above image is at a famous hospital in Chennai. All places are well marked for people on how to interact with the space.

It happens that if you use any of the subways in Chennai, especially the one to reach Chennai Central, people move randomly irrespective of a separator with iron tubes which doesn’t seemed to give the right solution.

The marking should communicate to people on which side they should step. On busy days at peak traffic this should be an ideal solution

What say?

know, Howto – about A/C servicing

Well buying an A/C is simple, it is about some thing like buying an Elephant, and worrying about maintaining it.

Here are few things about our A/C servicing guys in Chennai during AMC – Annual Maintanance Contract usually happens to be free for the 1st year when you buy an A/C. You need to renew the AMC periodically before it gets expired. It is good as the A/C compressor are costly to be replaced.

What covers in an AMC?
It varies from vendor to vendor. The common ones are listed below

1. 4 free regular check up of A/C and cleaning of the same.
2. Compressor gas filling comes under warranty, so filling charges are free
3. taking them to their service centers are usually free with in so many KMS radius, usually free if you have large number of A/C s under AMC.

Some offer more packages to attract customers, by bringing the compressor under warranty if the A/C are new, so replacement is free.

How to service the A/C the usual method?
The below points are going to referred for the Window A/C unit

1. Outside panel and controls to be wiped with mild detergent
2. Air filters to be washed with mild detergent and water
3. Hot coils the one at the back side of the A/C unit to be cleaned using mild detergent and brush to remove mud particles
4. Cool coils the one just behind the Air filter to be cleaned using mild detergent and brush to remove dust particles
5. water hose outlet to be cleaned, and the water outlet pipes to be cleaned with detergent, to remove of dust particles which have been duly collected over a period of time.
6. The last ones to check, is for the stabilizer to have the wires intact and to have proper conductivity. Usually these wires get in bad shape due to low voltage supply, when a surge of power is draw by these stabilizer to feed the A/C unit.

There are little variation as far as the split A/C is concerned. The outside unit has to be properly cleaned, which usually doesn’t happen as some one in your family needs to supervise the entire operations.

What is that they are supposed to offer during that 1 year?
4 free regular checkup and cleaning of the A/C machine. Yeah for name sake to get their charge sheet signed. Except for the Air filter, nothing else gets cleaned up. If you ask them they will insist, this is more than enough.

What happens when you don’t get the required output from the A/C?
They start cleaning the coils, NOW

My personal experience:
I have a 1 ton Window A/C unit of the make LG 6 yrs old and 2 ton split A/C of the make carrier 1 yr old

I would rate the LG better in terms of servicing they did some decent job, where as the Carrier guys where just behind the money. They would pour a bucket of water on the outside unit which was at the roof top and just cleaning the Air filters of the inside unit of the Split A/C.

Heard from my friends that Samsung is also good in terms of servicing.

The only problem I currently face with my 1 ton LG window A/C is for the loud noise.

Would be glad to hear some constructive comments and suggestions. If you need more info please let me know. If possible I will respond to the comments and suggestions.

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Chennai Traffic Police barricade, problem to Motorist

The above photo is the one on the Shathi Colony, AnnaNagar, after a left turn takes you to the main road which leads to Koyambedu Main road.

I have seen this chennai traffic police barricade for months, the on going traffic leads to safety of people who take the left turn, some time bikes skid on the road as the road become a bottle neck.

A kind request to chennai Corporation to fix the above place.

Request for Chennai Corporation

Click on the Image for a large view – BTW this picture was taken during the afternoon on Sunday, so the place is not that crowded
Place:  Near Annanagar Railway station a bridge with lots of mobile Fish stalls

This road is a connection between Villivakkam and Annanagar, and believe me this road is already narrow and crowded and on top of this new mobile fish stalls just started has created hell a lot of problems for commuters.

Kindly note: I am not against the fishermen nor the traders and nor the public. I would love to have a fish stall  out there close by which doesn’t bother the traffic.

Morning time is the peak and school goers are the major sufferers.  Traffic gets the ultimate beat.

Here is the request with the solution for the Chennai corporation. Can the mobile fish stall be moved little away from the bridge to the end of the bridge there is a vacant place towards Annanagar where very few people use that road as it stinks because of the cooum river.

Does Chennai traffic police have to bear with this

Courtesy: The Hindu

I was reading to “The Hindu” this morning, and saw this article. I have been in the same place trying to cross the road to reach central sub urban railways station. The cops have no control over the crowd. Yeah, I did see the subway, as Ms. Selvi stated it was in a pathetic shape.

My question is does chennai traffic police has to hear all this, just because they are doing good.

They are trying to save our lives.

This is what chennai peoples mentality. Even if some one is helping you, you start pointing fingers.

Well if Chennai traffic police had the rules in the first place, they need not have to hear the words, which people state.

I had stated once at chennai.metblogs too.

Just an Update: I took the other subway which is messier and with lot of hawkers. The one close to the park town station is cleaner safer and  hawkers  free.

Wondering when would Chennai traffic police would take the same step of encouraging people to use safe subway at saidapet bus terminus. Wish that could come true.

Most Dangerous electric pole, Ever seen

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This pole is made out of Iron, already rusted and ample wires pulling towards the road. I found this one at the Velachery near the vijay nagar bus stand.

Only the electricians can say whether they are dangerous or not. Wondering what would be situation if it rains and some one comes in contact with the pole.

Looks like some one on the Phone

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Honk, No reply. Why? he is over the phone and driving.

This guy was the phone, and was on the extreme right side of the road. How do you expect one to overtake?

I am sorry, How else can I take this home

Click on the image for a larger version (this photo is taken well inside the chennai city – Villivakkam)

This is a very common site, with Autoricksaw and trucks carrying long protruding objects in their vehicle. The above two images are an Auto carrying a long iron pole and where it came in contact with the Cable TV wire and finally winded on the pole. Leaving the TV channel viewers at pain.

I questioned my self, Why do they do it, when it might harm themselves and others.

Once I had to carry a tube light from a electrical shop to my home which is a KM away. All I had was my yamaha 135 bike, the shopkeeper took a role and tied one end of tube light to the rear end of my bike while the front portion was in between my right arm and my body. I thought for seconds, Am I doing this right. Then realized, India doesn’t have rules to stop you from carrying a tube light while riding and if at you are caught, you could still get away.

Well, honestly how many of you would have hired a larger vehicle to carry this tube light. Please do comment. Do say whether I did was right or wrong

One more Photo which I took long back , this one is near the Sruthi musicals Signal.