Deplorable, impassable roads

RAINS or no rains, quite a number of major city roads connected to arterial thoroughfares are in dire straits. They are left cratered and potholed with mud and slush and mounds of earth heaped as collateral ramifications of   inordinately delayed   mega fly-over projects. The stretches and areas under the pillared spans which are supposed to provide diversionary routes to motorists and pedestrians are either constricted or contoured. And, when transports force their way through them dusts get blown right into the eyes and nostrils of commuters and other road users.

As if to add to the public misfortunes, you have the leaked sewage pipes water-logging and polluting parts of city streets.

You experience such nightmare in broad daylight along Mouchak- Malibagh,Mouchak –Magbazar,Mouchak-Shantinagar,Moghbazar-Eskaton and Satmasjid via Hatirjheel point to sonargaon ,a huge swathe or confluence of routes that bears so much traffic  load. And yet they are  so much neglected, being far from serviceable.

 For at least  three years the conditions  of these vital link roads have aggravated from bad to  the worst under the very eyes of  those in charge:The DCC,north and south,LGED and  construction  companies.Obviously ,they were so carried away by the projects they did not think through  the   planning ,designing and operational aspects with due diligence and attention to details. For instance, the change of  project directors has been the root cause of delays. Secondly, contingency alternative routing was  neither thought through, nor provided for. Last but not least, nobody felt the need for keeping the public posted on the status of the works.  The lack of answerability is particularly disconcerting.