The civic body has an unattainable task at hand — 24 hours to not just fix the potholes but also to fill the trenches.
The civic body has an unattainable task at hand — 24 hours to not just fix the potholes but also to fill the trenches.
More than 40% of the potholes, and around 70km of dug up roads, are yet to be mended. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had extended its deadline for monsoon preparedness work from May 31 to June 6. However, the work is far from completion. With monsoon having hit the city, the BMC has just time till Monday to wrap up the pending work.
It had identified 2,915 locations of potholes to be fixed. The civic data states that there are 758 major and minor roads in the city having potholes. Around 90% of the pothole filling work in the island city has been completed. Around 30% of the pothole-laden stretch in the suburbs is lying unattended.
“We have attended to around 670 locations of potholes. The remaining will be completed by Monday,” said S Badve, chief engineer of the road department.
The suburbs top the list with respect to worst roads. Around 1,736 pothole locations have been identified in the western suburbs. SV road, Andheri-Kurla road, LBS Marg, which are in dire need of repairs, have not be attended to yet. Dahisar has around 311 major roads and 33 minor roads with potholes, Malad has 170 major and 121 minor pothole spots and Bandra (West) has 180. Compared to this, the island city has just 459 pothole locations. However, work on the worst stretches in Grant Road, Matunga and Dadar is still not complete.
Meanwhile, the deep, excavated portions for laying down the utilities also need to be filled. The BMC had set a deadline of April 30 for that. Around 462km was dug up by the underground utility companies, out of which 391km has been completed.
Here, too, western suburbs are the worst hit. Bandra has the largest stretch of roads marred with trenches. Around nine km is excavated. This is followed by Dadar, which has 5.17 km of trenches. The figure for Kurla stands at 2.31 km.
“The trench-filling deadline had been given to the utility companies. Wherever there are trenches, the work will be completed by the utility company,” said Badve. However, civic statistics state that a major chunk of the incomplete work with respect to the trenches is due to sewerage projects and the hydraulic department, which dug up the roads for laying water pipelines but did not do the repair work.
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