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It is like treading a tightrope for road users

Staff Reporter

Road restoration work progresses at a snail's pace

IN A MESS: The dug-up portion of the road from Bazar Guard chowrasta to Nampally Government Hospital in city. Photo: D. Gopalakrishnan

Hyderabad : It's a tight ropewalk for pedestrians. And for the vehicular traffic it is still worse. Traffic in both directions has to negotiate the narrow slip of road at great risk. This has been the sorry state of affairs at the busy Bazar Guard cross roads for the last fortnight.

The road from the Bazar Guard chowrasta to the Nampally Government Hospital is dug up and left just like that. The volume of traffic is pretty high on this road from both Aghapura and Mallepally areas. The little space that is left has put road users to great hardship. Worse, the public is at a loss to know who is executing the work. The `no entry' board put up doesn't offer any explanation about the work or its likely time of completion.

Bumpy ride

It was some six months ago that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) dug up the road for laying bigger diameter sewer lines. For several weeks the open trenches put traffic out of gear. Later it filled the dug up portion but did not carry out the road restoration work. Even now the road towards the Habeebnagar police station is a mess - offering a bumpy ride all the way.

Material shortage

Two weeks ago the MCH again dug up the road to complete the unfinished job. But the road restoration work is progressing at a snail's pace. Stone dust, the finely crushed material to fill spaces between gravel, is laid to only some extent. Its shortage is said to be holding up the work. Once this is laid on the entire stretch of dug up portion, a concrete road will be laid. "It will take another one week to completely restore the road", says Raees Iqbal, Executive Engineer, Circle IV, MCH.

Meanwhile, both pedestrians and vehicular traffic have a tough time negotiating this road - or what is left of it.

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