coimbatore a team of city corporation officials and workers removed encroachments by 90 shops in and around gandhipuram town bus terminal on thursday clearing the way for pedestrians and passengers while the shops in the terminal had encroached the public space by extending their front faade those outside it had encroached the same to extend their boundariescorporation officials said they had received several complaints from the public in connection with the encroachments on thursday a team comprising central zone assistant town planning officer a babu assistant engineer kumaresan and health department workers commenced the drive to remove the encroachments with the help of earthmoversan official said while notices were served on around 70 shops a month ago they hadnt responded to the same we told them yesterday wednesday that the encroachments will be cleared by our men and machinery if they were not removing the same before thursday morning none of them removed the illegal structureshowever even as the team reached the spot in the morning traders inside the terminal started removing the encroachments themselves false ceilings in front of faades were removed using earthmovers after the traders disconnected power supply to their shopsthere are 18 footwear stores on the side of bharathiyar road outside the bus terminal each store is allotted only 33 square feet sqft of space but they were occupying around 400sqft all the encroachments were removed during the drive the official saidinside the terminal he said the public space was mostly encroached by tea shops mobile phone service centres and juice shops