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.

  • 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.