KOLKATA: The civic body’s lack of ability to repair roads for about a month after taking up vital public utility works is leaving stretches of the vital First Avenue in Salt Lake in a bad form, creating much inconvenience to motorists.
Traffic congestion has become a normal affair round Baisakhi Island in the township as lengthy stretches of the First Avenue have been dug up for water-pipeline laying paintings. The pipelines will carry filtered water from the New Town water remedy plant.
The snarls are mainly going on on the stretch from Tank No. Five to Baisakhi. Once the paintings is getting over, the dug-up areas are being filled up in a haphazard approach, leaving the road floor uneven.
“During rush hours on Tuesday, office-goers and motorists faced the brunt of the unhealthy road. Also, some automobiles had been diverted to the other flank,” said Sankhadeep Roy Chowdhury, a resident of AE block.
The water pipes had been laid in March on each side of the stretch from Tank No. Five to Baisakhi Island, which is a two-lane stretch and about 15-feet extensive. The dug-up portion has been haphazardly filled up with bricks, leaving handiest Five-feet area for automobiles to ply on.
“The stretch used to be in best possible situation sooner than the pipeline-laying paintings. Once laying paintings on a undeniable stretches is completed, the civic government must immediately soak up restore paintings to revive the roads,” said a commuter.
“We will glance into the matter,” said Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) deputy mayor Tapas Chatterjee, who takes care of roads division. The civic government are already underneath much pressure to carry out regular road restore and upkeep paintings in a lot of places in the township. Road stretches in many places, together with each the main roads and roads in the blocks, are in an excessively unhealthy form. A civic professional said the company entrusted with the activity of laying pipeline in Salt Lake must correctly fill the dug-up portions, in order that the civic government can follow bitumen layer on the top to make the outside even.
Traffic congestion has become a normal affair round Baisakhi Island in the township as lengthy stretches of the First Avenue have been dug up for water-pipeline laying paintings. The pipelines will carry filtered water from the New Town water remedy plant.
The snarls are mainly going on on the stretch from Tank No. Five to Baisakhi. Once the paintings is getting over, the dug-up areas are being filled up in a haphazard approach, leaving the road floor uneven.
“During rush hours on Tuesday, office-goers and motorists faced the brunt of the unhealthy road. Also, some automobiles had been diverted to the other flank,” said Sankhadeep Roy Chowdhury, a resident of AE block.
The water pipes had been laid in March on each side of the stretch from Tank No. Five to Baisakhi Island, which is a two-lane stretch and about 15-feet extensive. The dug-up portion has been haphazardly filled up with bricks, leaving handiest Five-feet area for automobiles to ply on.
“The stretch used to be in best possible situation sooner than the pipeline-laying paintings. Once laying paintings on a undeniable stretches is completed, the civic government must immediately soak up restore paintings to revive the roads,” said a commuter.
“We will glance into the matter,” said Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) deputy mayor Tapas Chatterjee, who takes care of roads division. The civic government are already underneath much pressure to carry out regular road restore and upkeep paintings in a lot of places in the township. Road stretches in many places, together with each the main roads and roads in the blocks, are in an excessively unhealthy form. A civic professional said the company entrusted with the activity of laying pipeline in Salt Lake must correctly fill the dug-up portions, in order that the civic government can follow bitumen layer on the top to make the outside even.
Salt Lake woes: Roads stay cratered in April
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