I have been blabbering about infamous dilapidated posts about Shirady ghat national highway. It's not story of few days, months or years. This is story of over decade of ordeals of common man struggling to glide through this dreadful section. Just the 15 kms out of 350+ distance can create such level of horror.
Take a look at this video. The dust storm erupted by truck can create permanent asthma on people who are traveling without windows or window down. For people on full AC, some of dust particles may break AC filter and barge into cabin. Getting asthma amidst pristine rainforest is impossible but such dust storm makes it practical. Eventually, the car needs full body wash after reaching home. Hope car doesn't get asthma but AC filter will need replacement
The truck driver almost stopped due to nasty potholes. Then they move {or rather walk} uphill with jerks which emits huge emission. Its upheaval task for heavy trucks to trudge uphill over such dilapidated roads! The silencer jet blows up dust from caved in roads resulting in temporary dust storm. We experience hallucinations temporarily when dust storms passes incoming vehicle. The windshield almost turns blind. The vehicle following it may have to stop for a while for storm to pass. Overtaking amidst dust can invite accidents due to poor visibility. We need to squander time with slow trucks till we get safe room for overtaking
The dilapidation occurs primarily due to slow moving uphill trucks. During monsoon, the saturated bitumen gets crushed by lethargic trucks. Thanks to corruption, the roads are built with such great quality. The blame is always on lack of political will to provide permanent solution. Its not truck's fault anyways.
I am not influencer. Blogging is way of venting out your painful stories. When most national highways are flaunting word class build, here is a highway contrastingly which is not a road at all. Perhaps we can organize dirt track races to fund this cursed highway.
Recently I travelled along this route one more time. The road has been patched once again which would last only till monsoon outsets. Yet another makeover looks like. However, the 4 lane construction seems to be in full swing which is hope. The lump of mud erupting huge dust all over the path and hence troubling smaller passenger vehicles. Here is couple of instances where we had to stop vehicle for few seconds before resuming journey.
Truck driver misjudged the dust ridden lane and drove over lump of mud and thus erupting huge dust burst. It did seem like lane mistake. Apparently he looked drunk and was driving out of control. Such dust storms have potential even create asthma to these tall trees as well.
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