Mumbai roads
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to simulate online tracking system that is used for the first time for all civic issues. The system helped BMC to ensure the officials and contractors of the road department to meet deadlines and it is expecting to extend this system to other departments as well. The system will [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plans to monitor road contractors’ work quality may not take off soon. The BMC had invited tenders worth Rs 120 crore to repair potholes and asked contractors to install sensors and GPS devices on their machinery to enable the civic body to monitor quality. BMC made it compulsory for contractors [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken steps to get a team of independent experts to conduct a technical audit of pothole repairs of Mumbai roads. The audit is to start from next week and it will examine why the BMC had failed to rid roads of potholes this monsoon despite introducing cold-mix technology [...] Continue Reading »
Old and decaying underground utilities have worsened the road conditions in Mumbai as many of them have been suffered cave-ins recently. Pedder Road, Dr E Moses Road and Dr Annie Besant Road are among those roads who have witnessed cave-ins and portions of the roads have collapsed. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) do not have [...] Continue Reading »
The road surfaces in Mumbai, especially those which are uneven near the main road junctions are equally flooded with heavy traffic. Mumbaikars are spending prolonged hours spending at heavy traffic junctions. The drive from the main Mumbai town to Andheri (W) is a slow ride. The never-ending queues of vehicles at Andheri flyover and Burfiwala junctions, are [...] Continue Reading »
