Trivandrum: Barcelona or Mars? - I
Sunday, October 24, 2010 by: Arun MathewThe city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala in Southern India has been facing severe road infrastructure problems for few years now.
In one of his recent tweets, Tharoor - Member of Parliament from Trivandrum tweeted "Marxists have ruled City Corporation for 40 yrs,whom else can we blame?". Blame is all they all can do. Is anyone doing anything about this mess that throws people off their vehicles into the gutters?
The commies are no better - every time the media picks on one of those bad roads or bridges, they are quick to stage a drama by tying a few elephants and red flags to a road-side pole, playing a live band and announcing the "inauguration of ABC four-lane bridge" when actually it is just a cover-up hoping to quieten the ordinary citizen and media.
Then there are also internet-based patriots and vandals like Ajay Puppy, Such-Shit Vijayan, Kappa-Sudheesh and so on, who continue to hide the fact that their city is more like Mars than Barcelona by posting pictures of Kowdiar Road (where despite being a 'model' road, quite a few have actually died) and spreading false propaganda on behalf of many other fanatics indulging in edit-wars on Wikipedia.
In one of his recent tweets, Tharoor - Member of Parliament from Trivandrum tweeted "Marxists have ruled City Corporation for 40 yrs,whom else can we blame?". Blame is all they all can do. Is anyone doing anything about this mess that throws people off their vehicles into the gutters?
The commies are no better - every time the media picks on one of those bad roads or bridges, they are quick to stage a drama by tying a few elephants and red flags to a road-side pole, playing a live band and announcing the "inauguration of ABC four-lane bridge" when actually it is just a cover-up hoping to quieten the ordinary citizen and media.
Then there are also internet-based patriots and vandals like Ajay Puppy, Such-Shit Vijayan, Kappa-Sudheesh and so on, who continue to hide the fact that their city is more like Mars than Barcelona by posting pictures of Kowdiar Road (where despite being a 'model' road, quite a few have actually died) and spreading false propaganda on behalf of many other fanatics indulging in edit-wars on Wikipedia.
Back in September 2007, a tiny bridge called Marapallam was razed down for road widening with an estimated completion time of March 2008. We told ourselves "Oh! 9 months, that would pass by very soon!". Sure, the 9 months did pass by swiftly. But, nothing has changed.
Tonight, as I write, I have just come back home after witnessing a young man, who was thrown off his motorbike because of the uneven terrain and now has a broken leg.
Tonight is a night in 2010. October 2010.
Nothing has changed. The 'crip'-pled Road Projects continue to cripple us in many ways.
Nothing has changed. The 'crip'-pled Road Projects continue to cripple us in many ways.
Some of this pathetic truth is here for you to see...a truth that reminds us more of Mars than Barcelona!
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(Marappalam, shots from 2008 and 2010)
Very soon, you will need to learn to swim, coz that is where our roads are heading ... God Bless!!!
Buddy, didnt some douchebags say that if u posted pics of potholes, your blog qualifies as a Hate Blog
Well the plan was to raise the road to see the Arabian sea from distant roads. But instead we have our roads filled with ponds and backwaters... :)
I am actually disgusted at the way some treat Trivandrum as the God of all places. For heaven's sake, except some bourgeois ideologists and people with tall claims about things they have no clue about, trivandrum is going to the dogs. As you rightly put it, do we a good road to travel in? A road which does not stink of rotten waste? Good travel system? NOTHING! And still, this place moves on.
You have more or less summed up the frustration of the majority here. Except for Ajay Puppy and gang who keep themselves in the limelight with grandiose statements and band standing, everyone else knows what the situation is on ground.
@roadscraper city - all they can do is false propaganda hiding the truth from the netizens. We, the people down on the road are the ones facing the hardship. I work in Technopark and there are only 2 options for me to get there - 1. Through a narrow NH47 where bus stops are in the middle of the road literally thus blocking the road and 2. a road which has more slush than tar.
Who would not be frustrated?
Aren't you the guy who spent a night at Museum police station for manipulating the details of a builder's project.
^^^ @ Anonymous AJAY from Belmont, Massachussets - Spot on! I am the one and not my neighbor. We went to museum station shortly after 10PM and had to be up there till 9 in the morning. We had lots of tea, biscuits and even some jokes.
I thought the Cow Mudi had reported this and was there for the entire world to read. Unfortunately, even the other day, I had to tell a very good friend about this coz he never knew! So much for readership!
You must be very concerned? Does this still make you orgasm? Maybe you should put your orgasmic abilities to better use!
These days, the papers talk about how someone was arrested for forwarding emails, asking friends not to vote for the LDF etc - what the public and media rightly call "Misuse of power"
BTW, hope you are doing something to improve the situation around your Home coz when I last saw, many houses in Kumarapuram were connected to the road by a plank of wood!