Maran: Chennai must learn from Bangalore’s ills

Maran: Chennai must learn from Bangalore’s ills
The Times of India

Chennai:
After industrialists spoke out against Bangalore’s poor infrastructure, it was the turn of Union IT minister Dayanidhi Maran on Friday to target the city’s traffic snarls and urban chaos.

Maran, while inaugurating C-DOT Alcatel Research Centre in Chennai, said: “Bangalore has become a difficult place for IT companies. The infrastructure is very weak. The city is suffering.”

Saying Tamil Nadu should learn lessons from Bangalore and improve the infrastructure in Chennai, the minister pointed out: “It is better to learn and compare the infrastructure bottlenecks. It’s time Tamil Nadu awoke and solved the traffic problems in Chennai”.

Maran said, “Some 10 years back when I went to Bangalore, it took only 20 minutes to travel between two points; now it takes two hours to travel the same distance. When a chairman of the likes of Alcatel visits the city with a view to investing, they are bound to shy away if it takes over two hours to reach the hotel from the airport.”