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CROSS CUT ROAD-COIMBATORE

Coimbatore a commercial hub in Tamilnadu with many spinning units and automated engineering plants making the city quite popular in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is also popularly known as the Manchester of South India. Coimbatore is one of the noted destinations for shopping in South India especially for cotton clothes and also shopping bazzars here provide a wide array of things to be offered for the shoppers. Coimbatore is noted for its traditional culture which is very well preserved even after its high tech industrialization.

The must buy item in the city of Coimbatore for the shoppers coming from other places are the cottons and soft silk. Apart from the impressive store of textiles in the city for the shoppers the bazaars are also noted for its handicraft products, cheese, sweets and jewelry. Some of the most famous spots for shopping in Coimbatore are Cross Cut Road, Raja Street, Sukravar Pettai, Oppanakkara Street and Big Bazaar Street.

Cross Cut Road is one of the main shopping hub in the city of Coimbatore. Its close proximity to the city bus stand Gandhipuram makes shopping much easier for the dwellers of the city. Gandhipuram junction handles buses including moffussil buses to the neighboring places like Erode, Tiruppur, Salem, Gobichettipalayam, Sathyamangalam, etc. State Transport buses are also available here.

The streets of Cross Cut Road are crammed with people and shops housed with textile and jewelry and they are mostly the retail shops. Those who are ready for spending money freely or extravagantly in the designer or cool cottons, khadi materials, elegant and rich golden threads of Kanchivaram, Banarasi and other designer trendy wear, then the right place for the shoppers and visitors of the city to excavate is Cross Cut Road in Coimbatore which is the high market of the city. Also very close to Cross cut road is the nerve center of Coimbatore city which is Dr.Nanjappa Road which passes through the center point of Gandhipuram junction.

Dr Nanjappa Road is Noted for its Engineering Goods

Dr Nanjappa road is noted for its engineering goods and it is the hub for such products. People come from all the neighboring towns and cities to buy motors and its related products for they are housed with all the needful engineering goods.One can confirm themselves to be in the vicinity of Cross Cut Road, Gandhipuram when they locate themselves surrounded by people meandering on the road equipped with heavy shopping bags heading to the city bus stand. Cross Cut Roads which is about a 1.5kms stretch falls between the North Coimbatore Flyover and Gandhipuram Junction. The markets of Cross Cut Road mostly have retailers. This is one of the ideal shopping places for people who want to adorn their wardrobes and to satiate their craving for the most finely and trendy textile craving.

Apart from the busy shopping days, the lean days of the week also witnesses a heavy sound of footsteps and of course the courtesy goes to the innumerable textile and jewellery outlets situated in this area. During the 1940's and 1950's this was literally a barren land and only after the coming up of the power house in this area, the surrounding localities were sold as plots which is now known as the popular Cross Cut road. It is a remarkable growth in this part of the city with an extra ordinary new development and ventures. Initially this area served as the road linking this part of the town to RS Puram and Ram Nagar or the kurukku senthu. In fact this is how the area gets the name Cross Cut Road. Textile shops began flocking the area only in the 197'0s and '80s. Since then, there has been no looking back.

Cross Cut Road - a Shopper's Paradise:

Cross Cut Road can easily take the name of a shopper's paradise for we can take a move swiftly in a direct, straight course where there is a beeline of textile, jewellery, home appliances and departmental stores. Cross Cut Road is very well connected to the rest of the town for the local town bus stand at Gandhipuram falls at a close proximity to the shopper's area. In fact this is an added advantage to the Cross Cut Road for it makes shopping and transport easier for the people. In 2009 when the Coimbatore Corporation opted the Cross Cut Road as the testing ground for infrastructure development it was accredited as one of the model roads of the city.

However due to various other practical reasons the plan was dropped but still there are other proposals to dispense underground ducts for electricity lines throughout the city, including Cross Cut Road.Initially most of the retail market was more concentrated in other areas like Oppanakkara Street, Raja Street and Big Bazaar Street but now most of the retailers have moved in to Cross Cut Road for various reasons. The most common reason of shifting is being claimed to be the serial bomb blasts which took place in the year 1998 in the Town hall area and from then on the vicinity of this area is considered to be highly sensitive.

Wide Variety of Textile Collection

But all said and done in the process of passing years there is a big time achievement in the Cross Cut road. This is also a place for jewellery showrooms for the cities biggest shops like Joy Alukkas, Kirtilal & Kalidas diamond showroom, Thulasi Jewellers & Diamond, Sri Ram Maruthy Jewellers, Shri Arthi Jewellers, Kota Jewelers, Karpagam Jewellers are all located on the Cross Cut highway. Hence this is one of the best places to splurge in for exquisite gold and diamond jewelry. Cross Cut Road also promises a wide variety of textile collection with vibrantly hued saris. Some of the shops which are known across the country in this area include the Mahaveers, Ganapathy Silk House, Sri Devi textiles, PSR silk house, Shoba corner, Chennai Silks, Sri Devi Silks and Pothys.

Lakshmi complex at Cross cut road :

Of course Lakshmi Complex one of the first of its kind in the city is very old complex, housing lot of shops which specialize in different things. Accommodation is not a challenge to the people visiting Cross Cut for shopping for there are lots of very decent places for both boarding and Lodging in and around Cross Cut road and it promises to not get too heavy on the visitors' pocket. The most famous reputed Annapoorna Gowri Shankar hotel is located in Lakshmi Complex which boosts up the energy of the shoppers to go ahead in the long road of their shopping journey. Everybody visiting the Cross Cut will never miss the strong flavored coffee at Annapoorna for it promises to gear up the person.

There are lots of shops for kitchen accessories too with a wide variety of all kinds including stainless steel, brassware and ceramic too. The famous Kannan Departmental store is located in one of the busy streets of Cross Cut which makes the area much more crowded. This is a store which provides everything under one roof thereby catering all the needs of the public. There is no time which can be witnessed with less crowd in the store for it is always in hustle and bustle. So anybody visiting the city of Coimbatore will never miss out on their shopping in the busy street of Cross Cut Road. The Cross Cut Road ends in an over bridge and a drive down the bridge will directly takes us into the most famous RS Puram noted for its commercial branded shops.