One Way Chaos At Ashok Nagar

The one way system by  the Chennai Traffic Department imposed at Ashok Nagar Udayam is risky for motorists and pedestrians. All traffic signals on this stretch are removed for free flow of vehicles. But, was it really worth it? What about stopping vehicles for pedestrians to cross the road. Vehicles going to Vadapalani and 10th Avenue have to touch Pillar  junction.

This junction is mostly crowded with people entering and exiting Udayam theatre. The Traffic  police are trying really hard to solve the traffic conditions. The Ashok Nagar residents have been voicing concern over the problems faced, particularly by senior citizens, pedestrians and children in the area, which includes hospitals and office complexes.

PETA Members Protest Against Animal Cruelty!

PETA members covered in bandages while lying in hospital beds under a banner that reads, "Jallikattu: Harmful to Humans and Animals", two "injured" members of People for the Ethical Treatament of Animals (PETA) India will protest against the cruel and often deadly spectacle of jallikattu in Chennai on Thursday, at the Mahatma Gandhi Statue (opposite police headquarters), Marina Beach, Chennai. A third PETA member in a bull costume, also in bandages, will protest while sitting in a wheelchair between them. 

Their point? That jallikattu – in which terrified bulls are kicked, punched, jumped on, dragged to the ground and otherwise tormented – is in flagrant violation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and harmful to human participants and spectators. 

Because attempts to regulate jallikattu have failed profoundly, PETA has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Jallikattu Act No 27 of 2009, a state law that permits Jallikattu: 

"The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, clearly prohibits causing suffering to any animal, and state law cannot supersede national law", says PETA India campaign coordinator Bhuvaneshwari Gupta. "Until jallikattu is banned, bulls will continue to be tormented, and people will continue to be injured and killed."

Despite claims that regulations would reduce cruelty to animals – and even though the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act prohibits beating, kicking, torturing or otherwise inflicting pain and suffering on an animal – PETA's investigation into five jallikattu events in January 2011 revealed that abuse is still taking place. 

Terrified bulls are painfully dragged by nose ropes, surrounded by mobs of taunting people who send the animals into a frenzy, goaded by sticks, pushed and wrestled to the ground and pulled in different directions by ropes. At jallikattu events this year, hundreds of human participants have been injured, and many have been killed. In one four-day period in January 2011, 215 people sustained injuries during jallikattu events, 154 of whom were spectators. Two people died.

A Growing Commercial Hub

Anna Nagar Shanthi Colony Main Road once a quite  residential locality is today a busy  commercial area. The Shanthi Colony Main road  has a number of restaurants, hotels, hospitals and shopping centers. Shanthi colony main road. It is emerging as the prestigious commercial hub in Anna Nagar area. The Shanthi colony main road is indeed a growing

Commercial hub with hundreds of shops that sell all along the road stretch. The Shanthi Colony main road is becoming a shoppers paradise. Shanthi Colony has become  one of the major shopping destinations in Anna Nagar especially known for its retail shopping.

Buses Do Not Stop At Bus Stop!

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses going from Ambattur towards Thirumangalam  does not stop at Shanthi Nikethan Colony bus stop. In Chennai city there a number of bus shelters and bus stops but not many buses stop at the bus stands. 

This causes inconvenience to the passengers, elders and school students. The MTC authorities needs to take immediate action insisting driver to stop at the stopping so that public like us does not face inconvenience. Due to that most of the person not able to reach there destination in correct time.

Keeping in mind the number of people who would be using the bus stop, the MTC would be doing a great service to the people by making it mandatory for ordinary MTC  buses to halt at Shanthi Nikethan Colony bus stop.