Arterial roads continue to be in an appalling shape for months together putting citizens to hardship.
The road opposite Rama Talkies from Asilmetta is an example of how for months together its users have been put through a preventable ordeal. For years now, the road, part of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) corridor, has been a bottleneck.
A few months ago, one property had been removed widening the road and underground drainage work was completed. But the road has not been completed. As a result, with craters around the manholes, sharp, jetting metal stone and hugely uneven surface, the road is a test of patience.
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As a result, many of those coming towards Tech Mahindra Junction or Maddilapalem are forced to go into the BRTS corridor, sometimes braving the buses coming from the subway. It has to be completed as a part of the project work.
Another road that does not even have an alternative is the one between the petrol outlet and Four Town police station. For years it has remained a narrow stretch with encroachments on the storm water drain.
The reason given for not laying the road was that it would be taken up after the encroachments were removed.
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Finally the encroachments were removed and the road was widened. Before long Cyclone Hudhud struck, throwing everything out of gear.
But the one-way road to join the traffic on the National Highway or the arterial Sankar Mutt road continues to be a prolonged stretch of craters.
Sources say tenders for the work have been finalised and it would be taken up once the agreement is entered into.