Chennai OMR foot overbridge relocated to Sholinganallur

Sometimes, a new skill is absolutely unnecessary to shore up a career. All it takes is dusting off an almost-atrophied old skill and realigning it with new and emerging demands. Extrapolating that career insight to a physical environment, one involving a busy junction and pedestrians crossing it, sometimes all it takes is rooting out an old, metal FOB from the space where it lacked patronage and pegging it where it would attract just that by the dozens. A relocation of this kind just happened on Old Mahabalipuram Road. A foot overbridge on ECR Link Road (between Sholinganallur and Akkarai) that failed to make an impact ever since it was installed, being given an ice-cold shoulder by pedestrians, has been given a whole new key result area.  It has to serve pedestrians around the hugely busy Sholinganallur junction that has been unrecognisably rejigged for Metro Rail work. On July 30, 2025, L&T workers engaged in Metro Rail work were attending to the finer elements of the FOB installation such as light fitting, near the Sholinganallur junction.