Bizarre traffic lights: How do we follow them, if we have to?
4:48 PM Posted by ukmad
The photos say it all. I need not mention anything more, do I.
These are traffic lights at the Globe Circle.
These traffic lights have not been officially opened even after being installed for over a year now and hence they themselves have started to work but not the correct way I guess.
The complete city is getting a overhaul, the traffic lights in bogarves which have been shut for years together are being repaired, but who will look at these traffic lights which are functioning on their own.
These traffic lights have not been officially opened even after being installed for over a year now and hence they themselves have started to work but not the correct way I guess.
The complete city is getting a overhaul, the traffic lights in bogarves which have been shut for years together are being repaired, but who will look at these traffic lights which are functioning on their own.
In the first photo to locate the signal is only very difficult in those branches of the trees.In the first photo to locate the signal is only very difficult in those branches of the trees.
Your comments please.
Your comments please.
Still a bumpy welcome to Belgaum
10:50 AM Posted by ukmad
On Sept 15 A bumpy welcome to Belgaum I had made this post.
Nothing much has changed over the past 2 months other than some bolders being put on the road but still it’s a dusty and bumpy ride from road leading to city at NH4 (road which leads to KLE).
The Belgaum authorities do a great job when some high profiler or big politician is coming to town. Dividers are washed, painted but the entrance of the city, Who cares? Most of the MP’s MLAs travel by air so they take the Hotel Shankam route or if they took the railway no question arises.
It’s we the common people who come in from that road and we will have to suffer I don’t know till when. Until then have a bumpy ride.Images are not very clear as they are taken on mobile.
Nothing much has changed over the past 2 months other than some bolders being put on the road but still it’s a dusty and bumpy ride from road leading to city at NH4 (road which leads to KLE).
The Belgaum authorities do a great job when some high profiler or big politician is coming to town. Dividers are washed, painted but the entrance of the city, Who cares? Most of the MP’s MLAs travel by air so they take the Hotel Shankam route or if they took the railway no question arises.
It’s we the common people who come in from that road and we will have to suffer I don’t know till when. Until then have a bumpy ride.Images are not very clear as they are taken on mobile.
A bumpy welcome to Belgaum
4:44 PM Posted by ukmad
At the junction, which leads to KLE hospital from the National highway there? They are the BEST & biggest potholes of the city, the size could be 12-15 feet wide and 3 feet deep. The irony is that city corporation has built a tower very next to it, Its an umbrella illuminated which is built for the Kannada Vishwa Sammelan to welcome the delegates to the city with the words "Welcome to Belgaum", and has probably spent a few lakhs on it.
I hope good sense prevails and they had better spend some money on repairing at least the road entering the city.
I do not have a picture of the same, if anyone traveling try and get one.
Thanks Nagendra.
Congress Road in bad shape
4:30 PM Posted by ukmad
The Congress Road from Gogte Circle to Nanawadi Cross is in very bad shape. This part of the road is under the Cantonment for maintainece and nothing has been except for filling the potholes with bolders and mud. There are many such roads in town,I happened to get you this one.
See the small stones and gathered on the side of the road, best way to skid your vehicle
Congress Road Military Mahadev Junction. This particular spot was highlighted on this blog last year also, see here
Congress Road, Near Military Mahadev
Loose stones and mud gathered on the side of the road ( next to Military Mahadev) Best place to skid.
Gogte Circle, This pothole is in the center of the road if you are coming in from Congress road towards Gogte Circle.
Rains playing Fear Factor in Belgaum
12:04 PM Posted by ukmad
The whole of Sunday it rained heavily, rainfall recorded was 37.5 mm. All the gutters and drains were over flowing. Water had inundated a few low lying areas like Shastri nagar etc. Even water had entered a few houses.
In the morning, parts of maratha Colony were under water but after an hour the water receded. When I spoke to a few persons in Maratha Colony they all had kept their Cars on Congress Road, some at their friends place somewhere else. I was one amongst them all to keep my car and scooters on congress road away from my house so that they do not swim. (My car and scooters have swimed for two occasions in the past) I saw a few houses in Chennama Nasgar 1st stage where water had entered the compounds, as the drains had nowhere to go.
Heavy rains have now taken a toll on the roads also. Some of the few good roads that were remaining have now some big potholes. Fear Factor is on the roads now. Skidding of bikers on the top loose khadi is common on almost all roads. Commuters try to skip some potholes and ride the wrong way causing trouble for other commuters. The scene is the same all over the city. I had planned to write on the bad roads, instead I should only mention the good roads, that would be easy and a small list.
I will get you some pictures of the wonderful potholes in a day's time. In the mean time if you have some send them, I will post them here.
