GST road looks quite different for a few meters stretching from Kamaraj Domestic airport and Anna International Airport to close to Guindy. The first impression is perhaps the best impression; when the first impression of Chennai city is concerned, it opens up with an under developed image, but grows to provide this foreign locale picture. Every visitor to the city will get the feel of the urge of development the city nurtures. The most important road stretch of any city is the road from the airport which leads to the city. Every visitor with minimal knowledge about the city or on a debut visit to the place frames his opinion on the development of the city based on this road. Let's feel proud that the city has maintained a spic and span environment which will definitely have a wide impact on the image in the minds of the visitors.

Stepping out of the airport one might get a disturbed image, the fly-over which is under construction and tea hawkers who have set up their stall below the shade of the bridge. But that would account for the time which is required to get settled in the taxis. Slowly after few seconds when the car heads somewhere out of the fly over mess is when the stressed flyer pulls down the window to get a glimpse of the city.

With brilliantly constructed road dividers and planted advertising boards the city stands the best with its well maintained roads� Is it Chennai one might ask, for seeing the roads sans pot holes�? Alas, what am I seeing, workers mending in the grass grown in the small area inside the road divider in the hot sun�? Towards your left, you will see this different kind of advertising boards, not hoardings but a flash finish panel with wonderful caption in the ads. The best part is, these ad boxes glow in the night!

The maintenance work would be slightly simpler when the area near Pazhavanthangal, Cement road is concerned. Trident and Radisson hotels take due care to mow the grass surrounding their compound wall. Officers training academy on the left side keeps one guessing what lies beyond?

Flyovers in the areas around the airport are close to completion, once all the flyovers are inaugurated, the look of Chennai is definitely due a boost. Even those people who fled out of the city for varied reasons, on returning will get mesmerized by the way Chennai has adorned the new-fangled beautification of infrastructure. The flip side or rather one kind suggestion is , one should realize that the first impression will remain to be the best if the rest of the city could also remotely associated with this spic and span methodology.

SOWJANYA.S