Thursday, July 02, 2009

Travails of the Indian road-user.

Unlike road-users in other parts of the world, we in India have so much more to look out
for. Apart from stuff that we have become used to over years of government apathy, like potholes, bad roads, bad patch-up works, open manholes etc, we have to be also careful
about big ditches bang in the centre of the road.

Like the one below at Bajanai Koil street in Choolaimedu, which the Innova guy seems to
have missed, resulting in one of the wheels falling into it.




Took a few hours of effort to haul the van out. But a car can be repaired. Imagine what
would have happened if a guy on a bike falls into the ditch ?

In any other country, there would be a proper cordon around the ditch, with bright tape
to warn road-users. But then this is India.

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