chennai chennais night life is set to become lively as greater chennai corporation plans to create a pedestrian plaza on khader nawaz khan knk road where shops and pubs would remain open round the clockcorporation officials recently held a meeting with thousand lights mla n ezhilan and design consultants on how the plaza can be designed on the lines of bengalurus bridge road and mahatma gandhi road that have microbreweries bars restaurants shops and shopping complexesezhilan said the streets would have a pub economy that functions 24x7 in the meeting i assured gcc officials on necessary permissions from the government in this regard we plan to ban motorised vehicles on the pedestrian plaza people can get dropped and picked up at the entrance of the plaza he saidofficials said the adjoining streets rutland gate 4th street wallace garden 2nd street and wallace garden 3rd street will be developed to make them parking friendly to complement knk road led lights cafes and lush greenery the redesigned knk road will have a 2m walking track on both sides and a 4m travel lane ezhilan said with popular shops functioning overnight it will create a thriving nightlife and fetch revenue for the corporation through taxes the walking stretch will have a lot of led lighting places to sit and greenery he saidknk road in nungambakkam now has many cafes and eateries city corporation commissioner dr j radhakrishnan said the knk pedestrian plaza will be a landmark it will be nightlife friendly for now the project is on the drawing board he said as per designs shared by consultants with the corporation the broad stretch will have ample walking space on oneside with designer greenery space is also being allotted for new shopsevent managers and party hoppers suggested the corporation should leave ample open space for events at the plaza dj nights can add colour to nightlife on the road said sai prassana a citybased event organiser