Heegu Unte! Smart City NOT Smart with Irregular and Incomplete Concrete Roads
Mangaluru: This is the Fourth week of this “Heegu Unte” column, where Mangalorean.com will bring to you in retrospect and in perspective, highlighting on civic issues, unplanned and incomplete projects, Traffic mayhem, Irregular roads and Drainage systems, etc etc-in the so-called “SMART CITY”, but unfortunately doesn’t look like we have “SMART PEOPLE” at the helm to prove it. So here is the Fourth “Heegu Unte” story for your kind reading pleasure!
Welcome to Incredible Mangaluru- the picturesque Coastal and Education Hub, where you can experience Irregular and Incomplete New Roads, posing safety hazards to motorists and pedestrians- moving on all these bunch of newly concreted an “Incomplete Irregular Incredible” Roads which are simply a “NIGHTMARE?” For a City which has been selected as one of the “Smart City” of India, it seems like we are lacking “Smart People”, right from MCC Officials, Engineers, Contractors, and other District authorities who are simply wasting tax payers hard earned money on projects, constructing such kind of roads. If you look at all these new roads constructed recently, either there is a house, a tree, or a compound wall, etc, or a stay order put by private parties, which results in constructing the road in a crooked way.
Imagine continuing on constructing a new road when there are a few stay orders from a couple of residents and businesses existing -that’s dumb? Where are the concerned authorities? Where are the PWD and District Administration Authorities? Has anyone done a proper planning while taking up the construction work of all these roads? To name a few irregular and incomplete roads are one near Vas Bakery-Bendore going towards Mallikatte; the road near Mangaladevi Temple going towards Pandeshwar, the road coming down from Circuit House going towards Kadri Kambla Road; the new road near Ideal Ice Cream on GHS Road, among few others.
Does it make any sense to have a new road broad at a couple of places and quite narrow at some areas on the stretch? Just look at the pictures, you will know what I am talking about? So what good is it to have new roads which are not uniform throughout the stretch. All these new roads also don’t have a footpath or drainage- and unfortunately, pedestrians have to walk on the road, putting their lives at risk. Look at all the development work that has taken place since past few months, from drainage-footpaths and to the construction of new roads-none of these are up to the standards, most of them are incomplete.
When it comes to construction of new roads, there is absolutely no planning- why even bother to construct a new road when there are objections from the residents/businesses that lie on that stretch of the road. What good is it to have an uneven road, after spending so much money? Sheer waste of tax-payers money! Yes, in Mangaluru lately we have been seeing new roads being constructed-the road widening was proposed as a solution to the traffic congestion in this growing city with lots of traffic and commuters. India’s education hub, Mangaluru has an abundance of charms but its roads and traffic are not among them. The roads are narrow and the network woefully scanty, despite the fast-paced growth and exploding vehicle population in this city. Roads are so wretched that helpless residents can only make light of the misery by creating pothole-counting face-offs and crater-measuring contests. But when they decide to build new roads, they are not planned properly.
In conclusion, through a deadly combination of a lack of expertise, bad planning, as well as rampant corruption, MCC should lay some standards that will set the paradigm for future roadworks. MCC authorities should inspect and supervise when the road work is going on. If not, it will be business as usual. Roads will continue to be laid and relaid while money will leak out and line the pockets of corrupt politicians and officials.
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