![]() ![]() In Delhi, which perhaps boasts one of the best road infrastructures amongst all Indian metros, flooding of underpasses is common, and there's no dearth of mindless people who would drive / ride / walk into them and get stuck, and a death or two due to drowning is common every year. While this is an extremely sad incident where a young life was lost due to a gross error in the judgment of a taxi driver, underpasses worldwide are known to flood during heavy downpours, and it is common sense not to drive into flooded roads, bridges and underpasses without actually verifying the depth of water.įor those drivers who are devoid of the increasingly rare faculty of common sense, there are simple solutions, such as depth gauges painted on a wall, or complex solutions like an electronic board that lights up automatically as soon as the water rises beyond a minimum depth. ![]() Reverse and get off it, however difficult or inconvenient it might look at that moment. If you as a road user don't feel comfortable, please STOP and take the step back. One cannot dig a huge hole in existing surface and expect water to flow upstream, it won't! If you know and have the power, please help letting authorities know that those are not correct or acceptable. If any of you see such horrible road condition in front of you, please don't trust what you see in front as being engineered correctly. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the hospital and declared ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the kin of the victim. Seven people were in the vehicle, and six were rescued by locals.īhanurekha was rushed to the nearby St Martha’s Hospital but was declared dead by doctors. The accident occurred after heavy rain pounded the city Sunday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Bhanurekha, 22, who was employed at Infosys. I should have at least scribbled it somewhere here in our forum so that somebody else might have read it at least.Ī techie died after the car she was travelling in entered a flooded underpass at K R Circle in the heart of Bengaluru Sunday. I have told many of my friends just a week back that something like this can happen, after seeing the horrible underpass constructions in the above roads and now I feel really bad that I also had not done something more in this regard, inspite of having that intuition. Today evening, was quite devastated seeing the sad news of an innocent young person losing her life at a flooded underpass in Bangalore. Not as severe as the other two, but nevertheless can startle cruising vehicles to cause accidents. This was experienced throughout national highway across Tamilnadu. ![]() Traffic people placing iron barricades in haphazard manner near junctions. Why do you re route if you are not sure? If Swiggy can figure out that rainy conditions can change the scope of traffic, why can't you do it Google? It was not outskirts, it was somewhere in Sarjapur Road, Bangalore.ģ. (Mine is a Civic and living with it for more than a decade make me doubt almost every single road) Hesitated and waited a bit to see a vehicle approach and that fellow luckily stopped and told me not to take the car through that road as it will get stuck! That is the reason why local people are avoiding that road. Tried it and within a kilometre or so, was staring at a mushy waterlogged road with very scarce vehicle movement. What I observed is, during a heavy traffic situation, again in Bangalore, Google maps diverted through a parallel road showing almost nil traffic. Google maps aiding to the horrific scenarios. If something untoward like that happens, it will be nothing short of murder attempt.Ģ. And flooding is 100% sure to happen at such horrendously built structures. How on earth will water flow upstream from that hole during rain? People will drive straight through it and get trapped in case of flooding. ![]() That much earth was dug up to create an underpass. I was visiting this junction after maybe two years and I could see a 3-5 storey deep underpass at that very junction. An example that left me spellbound was at Kundanahally, Bangalore. Unacceptable creation of underpasses in the name of easing traffic congestion. Nothing against them, just that these are the places that I have seen such instances.ĭuring one of the recent Tvm - Bangalore trip, observed few road construction / traffic regulation mechanism etc that appeared to be horrendously unscientific and potential for fatal consequences.ġ. First of all, kindly excuse for naming places. ![]()
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