Thursday, April 22, 2010

Against a proper road for Kerala

I keep travelling up and down all over Kerala as my work demand it(visiting work sites of house construction and visiting possible house construction sites for design as well as consultation.)
From Trichur to Cochin now roads are coming some what nicely with four lanes and in some places with  additional small roads on either sides for local slow vehicles to go.Up to Cherthala from Cochin this four lane of roads go well.Once you touch Cherthala,four lane become two lanes causing continuous road accidents and deaths near Cherthala Railway station.
But once you cross Cherthala and when you reach Alleppey you have to travel through narrow  roads inside the town and as a long distance traveler you will feel frustrated when you have to find your way through traffic blocks and slow movements.Situation gets worse or practically same when you have to pass through Kollam.

I keep wondering why nobody has bothered about making possible at least a clear four lane traffic from northern part of Kerala to south end of Kerala which is the capital of this tiny state.Situation is worse when you have to pass through northern Malabar area as it is an area permanently forgotten from all project books of development.
At some time back when Dr.Muneer was Minister of Public works in UDF government,there was talk about an Express High way giving at least hope for thought that at least one day you can travel hassle free without wasting time and money from one end of Kerala to other.But all those so called revolutionary politicians fought with each other to provide his utter contempt for this “foolish” idea of making travel less time consuming less troublesome and less costly.So in spite of his best efforts Dr.Muneer has to eat his words and he was dumped as “anti progressive”
Now both opposition and ruling politicians of Kerala has sat together and decided that people of Kerala does not need this four lane or six lane roads because they consider disturbing shops and establishments near both sides of existing road as dangerous. All these years we travelled through these narrow roads with utter chaos,confusion,road blocks,traffic blocks and travelling in four lane or six lane roads will be simply boring for us Keralites.So  a delegation of all party representatives is going to meet Dr.Manmohan Singh to give him enlightenment on the great wisdom of Keralites.

Are we moving forward or back ward?In my opinion,present National High way has to be widened and there has to be an Express way newly made going through present undeveloped and under developed areas of Kerala villages so that high speed commodity carrying vehicles can go through that Express high way saving time and money.But who will listen to it and we deserve curse of next generations for continuously pulling down Kerala from development.

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