Roads posing threat to motorists, pedestrians
The Newindpress.com
Saturday August 19 2006 13:07 IST
DHARWAD: The incessant rain that has been lashing Dharwad, has exposed an ugly face of the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation that has failed to keep the city’s roads in a good condition.
The HDMC got a boost when it had launched an anti-encroachment drive. However, the substandard quality of works executed by it in repairing roads has come to the notice of the people.
The quality of work is so low that most of the roads that were repaired recently, are damaged beyond repair after the rains lashed the city.
Stretches of roads from Maratha galli to Super market, Old SP office to Corporation, Vijay road to APMC, Subhas road to end of Hebballi Agasi and Bhusappa Chowk to Kamankatti are so pathetic that the public is scared to use the same.
Dharwad, which once wore the look of a developed urban city, is now wearing that of an undeveloped and uncivilised remote village, following the defacement of all important roads.
The task of laying water pipelines in the city being taken up by private agencies at the behest of the Corporation, to supply 24-hour drinking water, has added to the woes of people and also ruined good roads.
According to people, well constructed and recently repaired roads, in all streets were being dug and after laying the pipelines, the agency concerned was not bothering to reconstruct those roads, resulting in slush all over the city.
The condition of these roads, poses a threat to motorists and pedestrians. Innumerable accidents on slushy roads, are being reported every day.
In Hubli, too, most of the roads including those at Cotton market, CBT, Gouligalli, Old bus terminus road, Gadag road, etc, are facing a similar fate.
People of the twin cities hope that the HDMC might bail them out of all these infrastructure problems by expediting the work taken up under the Rs 30 crore-road development project, for remodelling all important roads and complete the works on time.
The Newindpress.com
Saturday August 19 2006 13:07 IST
DHARWAD: The incessant rain that has been lashing Dharwad, has exposed an ugly face of the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation that has failed to keep the city’s roads in a good condition.
The HDMC got a boost when it had launched an anti-encroachment drive. However, the substandard quality of works executed by it in repairing roads has come to the notice of the people.
The quality of work is so low that most of the roads that were repaired recently, are damaged beyond repair after the rains lashed the city.
Stretches of roads from Maratha galli to Super market, Old SP office to Corporation, Vijay road to APMC, Subhas road to end of Hebballi Agasi and Bhusappa Chowk to Kamankatti are so pathetic that the public is scared to use the same.
Dharwad, which once wore the look of a developed urban city, is now wearing that of an undeveloped and uncivilised remote village, following the defacement of all important roads.
The task of laying water pipelines in the city being taken up by private agencies at the behest of the Corporation, to supply 24-hour drinking water, has added to the woes of people and also ruined good roads.
According to people, well constructed and recently repaired roads, in all streets were being dug and after laying the pipelines, the agency concerned was not bothering to reconstruct those roads, resulting in slush all over the city.
The condition of these roads, poses a threat to motorists and pedestrians. Innumerable accidents on slushy roads, are being reported every day.
In Hubli, too, most of the roads including those at Cotton market, CBT, Gouligalli, Old bus terminus road, Gadag road, etc, are facing a similar fate.
People of the twin cities hope that the HDMC might bail them out of all these infrastructure problems by expediting the work taken up under the Rs 30 crore-road development project, for remodelling all important roads and complete the works on time.
