Vizag Flyover - Never Ends .......

A.RAJU BABU,COBBLER: itsbecoming really difficult for our survival we sit on the road and earn our daily livelihood business has been effected terribly.no one is listening to us where do we go we have no other place what is the use of living in this world K. Satish Kumar, Murri Seller : There are many problems we are not able to come to this place there is also no proper entrance The business has also suffered They’ve discharged the mud here, it’s too dusty and adding to pollution If the construction is over soon, it would be better Sheela Rao, Housewife: We need to take the longer route to go the places where earlier we used to go directly GVMC said it would be over within two years Two years are over long ago There is so much of traffic to travel through a four-wheelers and riding two-wheelers are quite dangerous during the evening S.V. Rama, Employee: The main reason for delay that we know is that the contractor’s bills have not been cleared yet The works should be completed soon at such populated places The route is fine but the construction should be at a very faster rate But it’s too slow to even be compared to a goods train. Its progress at the bullock-cart’s speed. G. Kalyan, Popular Footwear Store Owner: It’s being difficult for our customers too they have to leave their vehicles far off and have to walk their way down the shops The heaps of sand and other materials have been dumped all around Apart from this, the rent of these Municipal Corporation buildings increases 35% in every three years Nobody listens to the common man They have devised to develop the entire Vishakhapatnam at one go, when they should be doing it in small steps G.V. Prasad, Maharaja Electronics Shop Owner: This flyover is growing troublesome Since last three and a half years, there have been many problems traffic jams, customer parking problems, buses and autos do not come to this route. No auto driver agrees to take us to the TSR complex Piled up Flyover materials and the congested one-way route has reduced our customer rate by 75% there are many who have closed down there shops saying ‘no business’ Peyidamma, Vegetable Seller : We have lost sales.We have to sit here for longer time to meet some small sales Me and my husband both are not keeping in good health, the thick dust is affecting our health Savithri , Grocery Shop Owner: Since my childhood, this whole street was the source of earning for petty business people but today we have to go to far places to get water packets Not only the business but everyone is suffering B. Kumari, Fish Seller: They have dug the roads and have destroyed our markets We cannot leave this place as we have been doing business for past 20 years at the same place No one is there to understand our problems Sitamma, Butcher: No one knows when it will be over. They are repeatedly digging the roads and refilling them We thought the work of this area is over but they’ve started again from this Sunday (6 Nov.2011 ). We are not even able to cross the roads Avarneni Satish, Petrol Pump worker: Neither two-wheelers nor the four wheelers are now coming the way they earlier used to come The buses also no longer travel on this route making our business go down by 50% Sai Raghuram, Traffic Policeman: Due to lack of funds the work has slow down Also they are building one pillar at a time, each pillar takes four-five months for completion and the construction materials also take lots of space which makes it difficult to divert the traffic as this is main center they will be many autos they stop here and there K.V.N.RAVI EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, GVMC