A Crater?? A Golf hole?? No...its a manhole!!!

Want to play golf? With a much bigger hole? Don’t join any club and waste money - hit the Chennai roads - its free for all here.

This is a picture taken from one of the by lanes of Guindy industrial estate. There is a manhole (rather a crater big enough to topple a motorist) right in the middle of the road. Yeah I know - why cant the motorists find their way around this would be the question - but leaving it like is definitely not an answer. What about cars?? Well, choosing another road is a possibility, but again, leaving it like this is not an answer. Is closing a manhole so costly in Chennai?? Is it so difficult in anyway?? This manhole is open for at least 3 weeks now. And the escapists would say they did not receive any complaints. Do they need a complaint to do every damn job of theirs?? So if this has to be corrected only after a complaint, is leaving the manhole open OK by the rules then??

I generally feel (and everybody contributing to this blog too feel the same way) that change has to come from within before we start pointing out changes to the system. But Honestly, change has to come from "within the people" who run the system before we try to change the system itself.

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.