Srinagar, Mar 13: Srinagar’s highly dilapidated roads have turned almost a nightmare for the city’s commuters. With drainage and basic engineering techniques for the roads failing yet again, the city’s roads are in a very bad shape today.
As spring has arrived with its usual rains, most of the main roads across Srinagar have developed huge potholes, thus adding to the existing miseries of the people.
Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), several commuters said that they are facing tremendous hardships due to the dilapidated roads in most parts of Srinagar.
“The roads in this summer capital are completely in shambles, which is only consuming the time of the commuters and also damaging their vehicles,” Aamir Manzoor, a commuter said.
The roads that are in dilapidated conditions include Airport Road, Karan Nagar area outside Sheikh-ul-Aalam hospital, road outside Kashmir Haat, road leading to SMHS hospital through Karan Nagar interiors, Hyderpora Bypass, Service Lanes of Hyderpora and Sanat Nagar Bypass, and several other main roads of the city.
Commuters and local civil society organisations have appealed the concerned Roads and Building (R&B) Department offices to look into the matter at an earliest so that they could heave a sigh of relief.
Chief Engineer R&B department Kashmir, Er. Showkat Jeelani, told KNO that the urgency is to fill the patches and the process to repair the damaged roads will be completed by the first week of April.
However, Jeelani said that the complete macadamization process will be started either in the mid April of by ending April. —(KNO)