Thursday, December 4, 2008

Khar Subway: why is it so hellish...

You can see, though the picture is so shaky the garbage piling right into the road-- this is one of the most important subways in Mumbai. Not just during monsoon, but at all times the access from East to West road (the other street is dry) is always wet with some water/drainage leakage. Kids go to school stepping over it. Pedestrians use that pavement, splattered always with Mumbai's own exotic graffiti -- paan/betel nut spit stains. Am going to post better pictures when my auto does not stumble too fast -- those would clearly show how both sides are equally piled high with garbage. The richest city in the country. And this subway is one of the two most subways linking the eastern and western suburbs -- sign the city has been imploding for long on its own filth... Today I saw a few construction workers pore some tar/stones on some potholes -- somebody's grand idea of road repair:)

Khar subway has been like this since I have known it-- and none of us are really concerned that this is also the first view most foreigners or new comers to the city get if they take it, as they must, to catch the arterial SV road, to enter the western part of the city...

C'mon all you developers/city fathers/or whoever is supposed to taking care of this spot -- when are you going to do something about this rot? Don't t you use this link route at all? It does not make you cringe?

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