Kolkata: Spells of rain have damaged stretches of city roads so much that Kolkata Traffic Police has asked civic agencies — especially Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state PWD — to repair them. Cops have sent an initial list of battered stretches to KMC. Cops said these stretches are slowing traffic and might lead to accidents, especially for two-wheelers. “Now we are preparing a more detailed report,” an officer said.According to the cops, though the KMC and other agencies have begun some repairs, complaints keep coming in about specific stretches in areas like port, East Kolkata, Behala and Jadavpur.
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At the top of the list are E M Bypass and Diamond Harbour Road. The stretch between Kasba and Science City, and between Kidderpore crossing and Remount Road crossing need immediate repairs, said cops. According to a roads department official, KMC has kept a road-repair group on standby for a comprehensive repair drive. However, they are waiting for a dry spell to begin work. “We need a continuous dry spell to conduct a major drive,” said a civic official.Biren Roy Road (West) and Motilal Gupta Road in Behala are in tatters too. Other roads in need of repairs include MG Road, Kastodanga Road and MG Road (South). In the port area, issues with Transport Depot Road and Taratala Road have been taken up with port authorities and work on Taratala road is nearing completion, said a police source. A KMC roads department official said mobile road repair vans are being used to fix potholes on an urgent basis. “These vans are now doing the rounds of major roads like Chittaranjan Avenue, MG Road, BB Ganguly Street, APC Roy Road, Lenin Sarani, SN Banerjee Road, Asutosh Mukherjee Road, and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road,” said a civic official.Some of the other potholed stretches under police watch include Raja Subodh Mullick Road, Cossipore Road, Canal East Road and Canal West Road.
