Can a minor change in the median bring unmitigated joy to a whole neighbourhood? Ask Kotturpuram residents

Residents of Kotturpuram are heaving a thunderous sigh of relief watching a median opening at Gandhi Mandapam Road “behave” way differently than it had been for the past few months. To their unmitigated delight, it has developed an attitude of magnanimity, no longer grudging residents on wheels the right to pass through it without the least bit of hindrance and safely. This opening in front of Vellayan Street had been kept only partially open, half of it being closed with metal barricades. Motorists had to squeeze their way through that small opening. And the fact that the traffic signals at this partially-open median opening had been allowed to take an indefinite break from work was not helping the cause of safety. Imagine motorists on either side making a scramble for that narrow gash in the median. There was just an orange light on the blink to indicate the presence of the median opening.