Ever since I was born i have lived in Coimbatore and I just dont remember seeing the roads in a good shape at any point of time. The roads seem to be continuously dug for reasons mostly best known to corporation. Every timeI look at it, I think "My precious tax money being wasted".
We citizens are surely not against the road being dug, which is obviously for some long term good for the city. But the snails pace at which the work is done gets on our nerves. I always wonder why there is no delay in digging the road or cutting the trees. The delay always seems to be in relaying the road and planting new saplings.
We had a good experience with the underground sewage system. The road was promptly dug and left uncovered for 2 full years and then comes the highlight. The road was closed and the road was layed (only in 2 streets out of 5 streets. No idea as to the rationale behind laying just 2 roads) and the pipes were not placed inside!!!
If this is not enough, house members drill holes to place the poles to hold a shamiana and political parties drill holes to hold poles for the hoardings.
But i am happy to travel along Mettupalayam road and the widening has made a mammoth difference in the travel. But had a tough time traveling to Malampuzha. With so much traffic to Kerala, the roads can surely be better. I did read in the paper that there is a proposal to tar the road on 25/10/12.
About the Thadagam road, it is like adding insult to injury. The thadagam road is dug up pretty bad. All the alternate routes from Saibaba colony to Edayarplayam are also dug up. The commuters learn patience, the art of maneuvering and adopt the policy "live and let live" while on this road.
Ours is a society known for patience, the corporation is just giving a test bed to test this virtue of ours.
Post your comments on your experiences on Coimbatore roads.
We citizens are surely not against the road being dug, which is obviously for some long term good for the city. But the snails pace at which the work is done gets on our nerves. I always wonder why there is no delay in digging the road or cutting the trees. The delay always seems to be in relaying the road and planting new saplings.
We had a good experience with the underground sewage system. The road was promptly dug and left uncovered for 2 full years and then comes the highlight. The road was closed and the road was layed (only in 2 streets out of 5 streets. No idea as to the rationale behind laying just 2 roads) and the pipes were not placed inside!!!
If this is not enough, house members drill holes to place the poles to hold a shamiana and political parties drill holes to hold poles for the hoardings.
But i am happy to travel along Mettupalayam road and the widening has made a mammoth difference in the travel. But had a tough time traveling to Malampuzha. With so much traffic to Kerala, the roads can surely be better. I did read in the paper that there is a proposal to tar the road on 25/10/12.
About the Thadagam road, it is like adding insult to injury. The thadagam road is dug up pretty bad. All the alternate routes from Saibaba colony to Edayarplayam are also dug up. The commuters learn patience, the art of maneuvering and adopt the policy "live and let live" while on this road.
Ours is a society known for patience, the corporation is just giving a test bed to test this virtue of ours.
Post your comments on your experiences on Coimbatore roads.
It was good mam!
ReplyDeleteActually whwn i used to do my PG, i had to travel through Mettupalayam road. It was initially very beautiful with giant like tamarind trees on both the sides of the road.I used to feel as if i travelling through some forest. But as days passed by, they started cutting all those gigantic trees and spoilt everything.
It takes years to grow but only minutes to destroy.
It took nearly two years for them to construct new road in that way.
When the costruction was going on, we used to travel with our lives in our hand!seriously!the roads were very horrible and during rainy seasons atleast one bus will enter those pits!
Such an experience I had!