19 days after it was opened to the public, a €5.5b intercity expressway in India's Maharashtra is already succumbing to potholes.
19 days after it was opened to the public, a €5.5b intercity expressway in India's Maharashtra is already succumbing to potholes.
This says less about cars and more about shoddy work and government grift.
Or sinkholes are common in the area
Then they shouldn't be using materials that succumb to potholes this quickly.
We have potholes in Ohio. Mostly caused by salt on the roads, and lack of maintence over the years.
This road opened on June 5th. Should be no salt. And there hasn't been years of deterioration.
If this pavement material is this weak, then it has no right being used here.
Graft could certainly be a factor, but I wouldn't rule out trucks or buses carrying severely over-weight loads contributing to the damage.
I'd guess grift. The pic shows gravel beneath the asphalt in those potholes. For any major road, you should be having more asphalt than that. Ontario major series highways have large amounts - 200-350mm is standard, 400 I've seen in areas with constraints. From the pic, I'd guess youre at 1-2 lifts, so maybe 100mm, at most? Given the speed of deterioration, likely only 1 60mm lift.
That's why you don't hire PennDOT to make your roads, Chandrapuram.
I was waiting till fuck cars centered around india. Urbanism or Car centricisim requires infrastructure. But here in India, we got european level tax and sub saharan infrastructure. We got infrastructure to support neither.
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