Indiranagar

monsoon

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

pothole

By Reya MehrotraWork begins on Old Airport Rd, 100-feet Rd,, SV RdAfter studying and listing out 360 potholes in the city that need to be filled up immediately, before onset of, the Bangalore Traffic Police has started filling them up, without waiting for(BBMP) to get adequate funds to start the job.On Saturday, BTP officials were supervising thefilling work being done by private contractors on three major locations in the city – Old Airport Road, 100 feet Road in Indiranagar and SV Road.BBMP has no funds currently and getting the required funds from the government could take some time. So Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) P Harishekaran instructed the traffic police to start filling up the potholes with whatever sources they have. A traffic constable Ameer Hamza arranged for a BBMP contractor who was working on another stretch of road and requested him to fill up some of the potholes at three roads using a part of the construction material from the ongoing work. The contractor readily agreed as BTP has been helpful in diverting traffic as and when the contractors carry on work at several locations in the city and agreed to fill up the potholes free of cost. A senior traffic inspector says, “On Friday, we had helped the BBMP contractor by diverting the traffic as they were working on a stretch of road so we requested them that they fill up potholes using some of their materials as it requires only little to fill up one pothole and they agreed. We have been getting all major potholes filled up using our sources and contacts before monsoon hits the city in order to avoid accidents.”As a part of the detailed study to identify traffic problems, Harishekaran had requested BBMP to identify and fill up potholes.BTP had also identified 45 places where waterlogging is likely to happen during monsoons.The inspector added, “We have written letters to BBMP with the locations of the potholes but they might take time so BTP is filling them using different ways like requesting BBMP contractors working in nearby areas to use their material to fill up potholes, and borrowing materials from truckscarrying it for various roadworks.”