Potholes
The commuters in Varanasi are finding very tough time traveling across the city as the roads have become withered and left un attended also the roads having potholes and lot of damages caused in name of municipal work. Public Work Department (PWD) and Varanasi Nagar Nigam (VNN) is not even bothered to repair the damaged [...] Continue Reading »
Potholes have been increasing the chaos all over the city in Thane, Mumbai. The pothole issue was discussed over in the recent standing committee meeting in presence of the civic bodies and the corporators. To overcome this pothole issues which are increasing everyday the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has come over a new implementation plan [...] Continue Reading »
The routes in Thane city have turned from bad to worse wherein the commuters have been fed up with the never ending issues over the traffic chaos created because of the existing potholes. The concerned authorities have become so helpless that instead of clearing the potholes they have decided to change the routes for the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now promised to repair 164 pock-marked locations in the next four days. Fifty-three of these patches are in the island city, 85 in the western suburbs and 26 in the eastern suburbs. Since the onset of the monsoon, the civic administration has been facing flak over pathetic condition of roads. [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Gurgaon have forgotten what carpeting of roads is. The state of roads has further deteriorated due to heavy rains. Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and MCG officials are yet to start a survey to identify damaged roads in the city. A visit to sector 15 (part I and II), sectors 17, 30, 31, [...] Continue Reading »
A total of 3,879 potholes have been identified by the engineering wing in Hyderabad as needing immediate attention. The Mayor said many roads had been damaged especially by the incessant rain from August 27. Technicalities over the definition apart, what the city commuter wants is quick and continuous action by the civic authorities in repairing [...] Continue Reading »
Two-wheeler riders, in an attempt to evade a pothole, may end up falling into roadside ditches which will again be filled with water. It’s not easy even for four-wheelers. In their eagerness to avoid driving over a pothole, many end up meeting with accidents. Else, the bumpy ride over potholes ends up hurting their backs [...] Continue Reading »
Corporators, ministers, and even the chief minister have questioned the BMC’s efforts in repairing the potholes. Potholes have become a major point of argument among the political parties in the civic body. Bad roads are being discussed at every civic body meeting, and a few times, the opposition (Congress-NCP) staged walkouts. The issue has become [...] Continue Reading »
Following the footsteps of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to consider software to monitor complaints about potholes and undertake immediate repairs. Officials claimed that they would be able to attend to potholes immediately with the software. A presentation on the system will be made for corporators and civic officials on [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC (Mumbai corporation) has given assurance that potholes and bad patches will be filled up by August 15. Our officials will carry out road repairs before the start of Ganesh Chaturthi. Since it has been raining continuously, we could not do it so far, but now there is a dry patch,” additional municipal commissioner [...] Continue Reading »
