32-hour jam on Indore-Dewas Road, 3 deaths: 3 die amid medical emergencies as vehicles stuck for hours; heart, cancer patients couldn’t get help in time - Madhya Pradesh News
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A massive 32-hour-long traffic jam on the Indore-Dewas Road turned deadly, claiming lives of three people trapped in bottleneck, including a heart patient and a cancer patient. Over 4,000 vehicles were stranded in an 8-kilometre-long gridlock that began Friday morning. The fatalities highlight the life-threatening consequences of unregulated traffic snarls on this crucial route. | A massive 32-hour-long traffic jam on the Indore-Dewas Road turned deadly, claiming lives of three people trapped in bottleneck, including a heart patient and a cancer patient. Over 4,000 vehicles were stranded in an 8-kilometre-long gridlock that began Friday morning. The fatalities highlight the life-threatening

The highway in question is cratered with potholes due to shoddy, cut-rate roadwork that disintegrates at the first sign of inclement weather.

The worst part? There’s a train between those same two cities, but the state of the railways in this country is beyond the pale, ironically because the government is pretending to invest in shiny new roads that…are cratered with potholes and disintegrate at the first sign of inclement weather.

  • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    Given the size, wealth, and density of India, I expected the list of underway and upcoming train projects to be much longer and ambitious. Of course, the hyperloop project is… special.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_rail_transport_in_India

    I also expected there to be more high speed rail going on. There’s at least one actual HSR route being constructed, but a very long list of “maybe nots” built up. Once the single route goes into service, India will have 300km more HSR than the US does (which is zero):

    https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-rail-projects-in-india/

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      The current government isn’t focusing on the trains ordinary people need (local trains with lots of unreserved compartments), because these are subsidized and run at a loss. They are running IR like a private company, trying to build vanity projects and put out more luxury trains with surge pricing so they can make money. Also replacing historic stations with crimes against architecture.

      Mamata Banerjee ran the rail ministry for five years without raising the ticket price by one rupee, and she’s, well, Mamata Banerjee. How come the current geniuses can’t do this?

    • destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      23 hours ago

      Given the size, wealth, and density of India

      The latter two are heavily tilted in favor of the ultra-rich elite (who prefer to fly or drive) and major cities (packed to bursting with people, overloading existing transit systems), and then there’s rampant greed and corruption to contend with.