Arihant Verma

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Another prefabricated disaster took shape under the cable-stayed bridge in K. R. Puram on the busy highway to Kolar. The bridge itself was an engineering accomplishment, but horror reigned below. The railways put up their walkways as they pleased, the roads department worked out their alignments as they pleased, transport companies positioned bus bays as they pleased and sidewalk vendors did whatever they pleased, leaving office-goers, housewives and schoolchildren no option but to risk their lives as they negotiated the chaos. It became one of the flyovers in the city that has made traffic ...more
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