State of Roads in Mangalore

Is a real sad scene when it comes to the roads in Mangalore. The rains are on time this year, and its going to rain cats and dogs in the next few days for a couple of months. But the situation of roads has gone from bad to worse.

The roads were dug for (re)laying drainage lines, telecom cables etc starting Feb/March, I guess, and not properly covered up at many of the places, which can be quite dangerous. I was hoping that they would do at-least (re)tar the roads before it rained, but it turned out to be much more worse than I had hoped for. Forget the tar, they haven’t even covered the trenches properly. At some places, they have done some patch up work, but its clearly of sub-standard quality, and already the patch work has disappeared at many of the places. (in just 5 days!!!).

The city corporation has issued a notification banning digging of roads in the next three months starting June 1st to telecom companies etc.., but it has not bothered to close the trenches that have been dug right about in April / May. Even after the notification, today, since it was a bit sunny, I saw some MAJOR digging happening on at-least 4 roads. (i.e., almost all the roads i traveled today!!)

The next three/four months would be really bad, causing major problem to public. But who cares? The municipal folks are not bothered at all. They are just worried about their pockets! Hopeless people. All it needs is a little bit of planning. Don’t know when our country will improve.

6 comments | June 6th, 2005 at 03:20pm