Caution: These roads are not for use!

Caution: These roads are not for use!


Ten years, no repair

This road is in a pathetic condition and has not been repaired for 10 years - it is the one that is situated at the Veerana Palya junction, running parallel to the much-hyped Lumbini garden! The road opposite Lumbini garden is a Ring road and is in tip-top shape, but not the parallel road, a major connecting road from Veeranapalya signal junction to Jakkur aerodrome and then onto Bellary road.

This road has not been maintained, looked after or been tarred since 10 years, despite residents giving many complaints to the BBMP. The Palike has turned a deaf ear to requests from people of this area.

The scenario will worsen once the monsoons begin. The road will be flooded with rain water, and slushy with garbage waste which is usually dumped along this road! This road was much-hyped before as it was to be the link road to the BDA Arkavathi Layout. Now, it seems no such authority is bothered to even look at it!
At Veeranapalya signal junction on this road, the red signal fails to stop vehicles. Even when the red light is on, motorists from all directions speed ahead with ease. All this happens right in front of the Circle Inspector and constables!
Santosh Kumar,
Advocate

Manage digging, footpaths well

We find that almost all roads in Bangalore city are becoming congested day by day in spite of widening. Though the BBMP is making honest efforts to improve road conditions, traffic management attracts more attention due to growing population, industrialisation, and the present infrastructure.

Pedestrians - especially school children, physically handicapped people and senior citizens - find it very difficult to cross the road (for instance, Bellary Road which leads to the new airport at Devanahalli). Sometimes, it is difficult to even climb the footpaths, which are one foot above road -level.

At least 30 per cent of the roadside area, and a large portion of the footpath at various zones of the city are occupied by BMTC for bus-stops; by push-cart vendors; by shop-keepers and customers for parking their vehicles from morning till night; by residents or parking their personal vehicles in front of their houses; and by BESCOM and network agencies for dumping cables while undertaking repair works.

Automobile companies have sell four-wheelers at competitive rates; used cars are also easily available to the common man. But he or she is not concerned about the availability of parking space.

The new government should see to it that the footpaths and roads are not misused. Supervisors should be appointed at various zones to ensure that unauthorised digging of roads and footpaths are controlled. If roads and footpaths are not repaired properly after completion of work, action should be taken against the concerned department . Heavy penalties should be imposed upon those owners of vehicles for parking on the footpath, and against those vendors who conduct business on the footpath.

A senior citizen

Make roads safer

Though they have been repaired recently, the roads are not safe enough - they have a number of manholes, with their covers jutting out onto the road. The authorities have failed to close the dents and pits formed on the roads during repair works. The failure to use road rollers after asphalting the roads might lead to the grit and gravel getting dislodged during the peak of the monsoon, leaving the roads in a state of disrepair once again.
H Narayanan

Potholes, open drains

The main road of Chikkakammanahalli from Bannerghatta main road (near Meenakshi Temple) is in a pathetic state, and has been that way for years. The large potholes make it non-motorable. During the rainy season, the condition gets nightmarish for pedestrians too.

Drainage and road works were begun recently as a sum of Rs 2 crore was granted for development. The work was supposed to be completed by now, but was stopped 3 months ago, and there are no further signs of development.

The drain is overflowing, and recently there was illegal dumping of solid waste by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in Doddakammanahalli, near the rock quarry close to the Tejaswini Phase 1 layout.
Kumaraswamy

Road not motorable

The road from Meenakshi Temple to Doddakammanahalli has become pathetic, and is not at all motorable. Initially, money was sanctioned to develop the road. The project was supposed to start by October 2007 and get over by February 2008. However, no progress has been seen on this project, and the condition of the road is worsening day by day - due to rain as well as the heavy trucks moving on it.

Besides, the city’s waste is being dumped here, and the stench is unbearable.

Bhanuprakash