The road to Electronic City from Bangalore the silicone city or silicone valley of India, which is also called Hosur Road, which is under construction is so unscientific that is waiting for disaster to happen. The road, which is highly traveled connect the major software company head offices like Infosys, Wipro and other well known multination software companies. Probably the number of vehicle traveled in a day would cross more than 200,000 vehicles. Considering all these factor anybody would expect a quite a decent connecting road between Hosur road and the Bangalore city.
To list how pathetic the road is, the drainage system on both the sides of the road, which can be considered bit high-tech compared to Indian standard has a top covering made out of concrete cement slabs. As the these cement slabs are exactly at the level of the road vehicles such as truck, buses, and other heavy vehicles travel on those because of heavy congestion on the road. Nobody knows how long it can take the weight of the heavy vehicles and when it will give up and breakdown, because of well known factor throughout India, the covering of the drainage system in India is so substandard, and sometimes the slabs covering the drainage system hardly lasts month or so after making it! Only one can hope when these slabs breaks down nobody would become victim of it.
The problem does not stop there. The alignment of these concrete slabs are so pathetic, it looks like the engineers never thought the slabs have to be aligned properly so that there are no gaps between the slabs. The slabs vary in size from 4 feet to 6 feet and they are laid on the drainage system. As the Hosur Road is of the stretch of around 15 kilometers you can expect as much gaping hole as much as the concrete slabs. As the slabs kept on laying side by side from different places through out the stretch of the road, each place where they supposed to meet and close the gap always so small that they cannot close with either existing size molds of concrete slabs, so probably it looks like the construction company has given up on correcting these thinking why to realign entire slabs or make new slabs to fit these gaps.
The most HORRIFYING FACT IS UNFIXED METAL GRILLS in the concrete slabs. You only hope these construction company had employed qualified engineers to make designs of these structures. The road is mostly elevated 5-10 feet from the ground so naturally water would drain out of the road. In some places where the road is constructed it passes through bottom of the lake, which had existed previously, now because of urbanization totally dried out. But these are natural flooding planes, which witnessed heavy flooding 2-3 years back, and the road had almost came to a standstill then. Interesting thing is these brilliant engineers hope they would drain the water through these metal grills when it floods again in the future!!
Coming back to these metal grills, they are absolutely not fixed in any way to the concrete slabs. The amount of slabs with metal grills so as to drain water during rainy season is fixed approximately one in 10 slabs. Probably these metal grills might be weighing anywhere from 10-15 kilograms (such an easy money for thieves who can sell it to scrap metal dealers and have money for nice drink for whole week!). Once again these grills are exactly on the level of the road and many heavy vehicles travel on those. Nobody for sure knows how long it would last. Already, not even in the matter of 3-4 weeks after keeping them in place they in many places caved in!! BUT MOST DANGEROUS FACT IS ALREADY THEY ARE BEING ALTOGETHER MISSING IN MANY PLACES, probably due the fact that it would be worth Rs. 100 to 200/- (2 to 4 dollars) in scrap metal shops.
The common citizen of Bangalore and IT and other skilled people of Bangalore who bring billions of Forex to India, and give heavy income tax would expect a little bit more sensible scientifically designed road so that they can commute between home and office peacefully without having to worry about such a basic requirement.
CONCERNED CITIZEN OF BANGALORE
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