KOLKATA: Two days of good showers have bared the skeletons of primary roads, making them perilous for commuters. Areas the place Metro building is in progress have particularly becomes treacherous after the latest downpour.
Diamond Harbour Road, for instance, now has numerous pockmarks as the rain has exposed the craters all along its bituminous floor. The concretized stretches are the only saving grace for commuters. The public works division, which maintains the street, wanted to re-lay the street as a substitute of doing patchwork that doesn't remaining more than a few months. The spots that had been crammed up with bricks have became rickety, posing a risk to road customers, particularly the two-wheelers.
The challenge to re-lay the street has been inordinately behind schedule because of loss of coordination among different businesses. “The worst stretch of DH Road is at busy Behala Chowrasta, the place craters is as deep as 1ft. If any auto hits a ditch, it gets stuck. Sometimes, our vehicles get tilts. It becomes very risky for us and the passengers,” stated auto driving force Dasarath Das. Movement of professional quality trucks additionally takes a toll at the road.
The condition of EM Bypass is equally pathetic, with shoddy patchworks carried out over the years giving strategy to showers. Metro building has became the stretch between Ruby crossing and Science City particularly risky. Engineers blamed movement of over-loaded trucks for the craters. Uneven power at the road creates effective fissures that allowed water to percolate down to the bottom and harm the street, they argued.
Both PWD and KMDA handed the dollar to RVNL, the executing agency for the Metro alignments — over DH Road as well as EM Bypass. But RVNL claimed they had launched adequate fund for the upkeep of the roads.
TOI has been writing on poor stipulations of city roads with repeated mentions of DH Road, EM Bypass, VIP Road, Prince Anwar Shah Connector, Park Circus Connector and Jessore Road. With Puja handiest three months away, all of the different roads have no less than undergone patchwork, if no longer relaying. But DH Road and EM Bypass is still in deep mess.
Diamond Harbour Road, for instance, now has numerous pockmarks as the rain has exposed the craters all along its bituminous floor. The concretized stretches are the only saving grace for commuters. The public works division, which maintains the street, wanted to re-lay the street as a substitute of doing patchwork that doesn't remaining more than a few months. The spots that had been crammed up with bricks have became rickety, posing a risk to road customers, particularly the two-wheelers.
The challenge to re-lay the street has been inordinately behind schedule because of loss of coordination among different businesses. “The worst stretch of DH Road is at busy Behala Chowrasta, the place craters is as deep as 1ft. If any auto hits a ditch, it gets stuck. Sometimes, our vehicles get tilts. It becomes very risky for us and the passengers,” stated auto driving force Dasarath Das. Movement of professional quality trucks additionally takes a toll at the road.
The condition of EM Bypass is equally pathetic, with shoddy patchworks carried out over the years giving strategy to showers. Metro building has became the stretch between Ruby crossing and Science City particularly risky. Engineers blamed movement of over-loaded trucks for the craters. Uneven power at the road creates effective fissures that allowed water to percolate down to the bottom and harm the street, they argued.
Both PWD and KMDA handed the dollar to RVNL, the executing agency for the Metro alignments — over DH Road as well as EM Bypass. But RVNL claimed they had launched adequate fund for the upkeep of the roads.
TOI has been writing on poor stipulations of city roads with repeated mentions of DH Road, EM Bypass, VIP Road, Prince Anwar Shah Connector, Park Circus Connector and Jessore Road. With Puja handiest three months away, all of the different roads have no less than undergone patchwork, if no longer relaying. But DH Road and EM Bypass is still in deep mess.
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June 28, 2018
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