Traveling through SHiradi Ghat has been smooth experience nowadays thanks to near completion of concrete roads. Even though the original plan is 4 lane, the authorities at least managed to complete single lane. Barring at couple of places, the concrete road work is almost finished. The section of highway where road is left untouched has become primary bottlenecks with vehicles loosing velocity in a flash. The first section is due to railway bridge construction which faces extreme bureaucratic hurdles. The railway line bridges are always under supervision of railway board and their bureaucratic hurdle is awful. The direct impact is on road travelers who have to bear the menace of gliding through the dilapidated roads. The section is nearby Donigal where the road curves through a narrow space which cannot even accommodate two trucks in parallel. The incomplete road work is because of the deep valley situated by the side of road. I am not sure whats the plan here. Whether to construct deep bridge or excavate the neighbouring hill. Nevertheless, the current situation is that the road has deep craters and jerking through it feels dreadful especially when heavy trucks arrive wobbling. Heaven save us from giant trucks overturning on to us.
Navaratri holidays concluding in couple of days. While we had smooth ride till 2/3rds of ghat ascension towards Bengaluru, the patch near Donigal turned out to be annoying. We were taken aback by the out of blue traffic jam extending for 1kms at least. The map showed commute time of 30mins through red area at least for 1km. However, it took more than an hour. Red lanes flanked by green forests!
The car spent unwanted energy idling through the traffic jam. This scene would anyway be encountered as we near city, but this unexpected jam was annoying. Perhaps it was bad omen of further traffic deterioration. The cause of jam amidst the pristine forest was (i) The abrupt transition from four-lane clean concrete road to two lane pot-holed road. (ii) The huge tourist influx to Manjarabad fort nearby. While (ii) may not have caused significant overload, (i) definitely is reason for majority problem. The heavy trucks exacerbated the situation by slowly moving through the craters while the faster cars slowed down drastically as a result. This created too much back-pressure extending to more than a km. Additionally, the narrow roads for 50m along the DOnigal curve halted traffic at one side which along with snail paced trucks deteriorated the situation.
Hope authorities would soon complete the stretch to smoothen traffic!
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