Ajay - On the Road called Life!

And my report continues. Not much development in the manholes. It hasn’t gotten worse from yesterday nor has it gotten better.

Manhole 1 - Day 11

Manhole 3 - Day 09

Additionally the road situation on the junction has just worsened.
Horrible traffic, bad roads, this is Mumbai!

Missed day 09 because I was late for the bus and wasn’t able to snap a pic. However, didn’t miss that much, as Day 10 wasn’t a disappointment at all.

Manhole 1 has broken still further. There is nothing left of it.

Manhole 3 has worsened still further thanks to road work just adjacent to it. What surprises me is that there was no work being done on Monday and yesterday (Tuesday) morning, the road was all dug up Do they work fast or what!
Pics below for you to see.

Do you folks also have similar scenes in your neighbourhood? Tell me about it.

This is the follow up post from Manholes - Day 03. As I said, I wasn’t able to take pictures of days 04 to 07. However, the BMC hasn’t disappointed me.
When I arrived at my stop today, both the manholes in a worse state since that day.

Here’s Manhole 01 on the eight day:

And Manhole 03 on it’s sixth day:

As you can see this has broken down still further. One of the two covers has gone missing and there is water all around the manhole.
What’s worse about this manhole is that it is exactly at a right turn, which makes it difficult for vehicles to maneuver around it.

I don’t see both these manholes getting repaired in the near future, so I now have one post per day

Following up on my post, we enter the third day.

The condition of Manhole 01 hasn’t changed much since yesterday, but neither has it been repaired.

And I found another manhole nearby in a much worse state!

I won’t be able to get feedback for Day 03 to Day 07, because of a two day training programme I have to attend, plus the weekend.

Hopefully, the manholes would be repaired by Monday.

I’m a little charged up by my Manholes post.

Born, brought up and having lived in Mumbai all my life, I’ve found a lot of things to complain about in this city, be it the roads, the traffic, the corporation or the people at times. And then again there are a lot of things that make me really proud to live in this city.

I always look at both sides of the coin. At times it gets just too frustrating to do anything about it. At other times things are so amusing or downright stupid that all I can do is talk about it.

So, why not talk about this online?
My Nokia 6681, my computer and a good internet connection is all that I need and have

I have now created a new category labelled Yeh Des Hai Mera.
This category will be dedicated for such posts, pictures, events, current affairs and other topics of interest in Mumbai in particular and India in general.

Do you have any topics you would like to share with me? Do you know of any incidents worth talking about? Would you like to contribute to this section? Do you have any blog posts / articles that I can link to?

This is a follow up of my yesterday’s post and developments on the same.

The first manhole has broken still further, while the second has been repaired. I wonder why they didn’t repair both

Will keep you updated on the status of the first…

The place where I catch my bus every morning near J.B. Nagar has two manholes.

A few months back one of the manholes broke a bit and within the next two days it had crumbled completely. Instead of it being repaired I found stones around the manhole. It did get repaired finally.

I missed photographs then, but this time the story repeats. Found both manholes have developed small holes and this time took the needed pictures.

Here is the first (the one which broke last time):

Click the thumb to view the full pic.

And this is the second:

If you look closely at the picture, there is one glaring stupid mistake. Rather easy to spot, so can you tell me what it is?