Monday, December 8, 2008

Of road construction

Chennai is never known for its "infrastructure" if you could call it. This is can applied to all areas. Best example is our road construction. What should have started as a quick fix is now a norm. Roads are built on top of existing battered roads not only making it vulnurable, but in the process submurging buildings on the frindges. I learnt from friends in other countries that when roads need to be rebuilt, they are done by digging up existing ones and relaying the whole structure again. But the best I have seen happen in chennai is just a layer of tar applied on the existing roads. So what starts off as an initiative to aid infrastructure becomes trouble.


I live on the fourth floor of an apartment, and I just hope it does not become a basement someday.

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