Padil RUB Flooded Again! 4 Wheeler Wade through Water/2 Wheeler Riders Use Walkway
Padil Rail Under Bridge {RUB} Flooded Again! 4 Wheeler Wade through Water/2 Wheeler Riders Use Walkway
Mangaluru: The Rail Under Bridge (RUB) near Padil-Bajal Road, near to Mangalore Junction Railway Station, which has caused lots of inconveniences to motorists and pedestrians since it was put to use, has flooded again- but not much like last year. While four wheeler vehicles wade through the knee-high flooded water, but two-wheeler riders are using the pedestrian walkway, putting commuters life in danger. Even after experiencing problems that this project had created last year, the concerned authorities have still not rectified the problems. creating more problems than helping people. And with the recent heavy rains, the RUB has been flooded making it hard for light vehicles, especially two-wheeler to navigate through it. With no proper drainage planned while constructing this RUB, rain water gets stranded up to knee level and sometimes even above.
Mangaluru City Corporation has still not been able to set right the vital road that provides access to many other adjoining areas. This Under Bridge has totally cut off the road connecting Faisalnagar and Jayanagar, where people of these areas are now forced to walk up to the main road at Padil to go for work or do other errands. With the incessant rains lately, and due to the poor planning of this under-bridge with no proper drainage the rainwater has been collecting till knee high. While motorists, especially four wheeler are managing to wade through the water, the pedestrians are using alternative and longer routes to avoid this mess in order to reach their work places and other appointments in the city. The main reason for the present pathetic situation is because of the lack of coordination between the City administration and Palakkad division of Southern Railways.
Faulty design and planning of the Road under Bridge (RuB) by the Southern Railways, and now Mangaluru City Corporation has to bear the brunt in rectifying the “Flooded Situation”? But even as of today, nothing much has been done to fix this “watery” situation. The RuB looks like swimming pool, and last year there was a protest by an organization by fishing in this flooded water. With no other option to allow the flow of the stranded water, MCC has been using pump-sets to pump water to clear the area, when it rains.
While the main road goes straight towards Bajal, the one immediately after the under-bridge leads to Veera Nagar and on the right leads to Vijaya Nagar. The road to Veera Nagar has to utilize some portion of the Railway land, for which, the corporation says, the former was objecting to and the work was getting delayed. Though the corporation was aware of the existence of a perennial stream immediately after the under-bridge, little was done to allow free flow of water without disturbing the vehicular movement through the bridge. With heavy rains lately, water is getting accumulated inside the concrete box forcing vehicle users to wade through the pool. A corporation should speed up the construction of the drain to facilitate smooth flow of the stream- but at present, it seems like nothing has been done so far, other than pumping of water.
Although RuB road stretch has not been closed for the timing, with vehicles wading through the water, while two-wheeler riders and pedestrians use the walkway, the RuB that was constructed with few crores has resulted in taxpayers money going down the, “Drain”?
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