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Jul 21, 2008

CONGESTIONS * India - Ore Trucks Continue to Batter Roads Despite Police Order

Panambur, a place which used to be one of the highlights of the city for its port, factories and the industrial area nearby, off late has been in limelight for all the wrong reasons

Mangalore,GA,India -Prajwal Ukkudafor Daijiworld Media Network/Daijiworld.com, by Abrar Khar (PICTURE/CRONICS') -Jul 21, 2008: --...It gained international fame with its snail pace highway road construction and pathetic potholes, not too long ago (the construction is still 'in the process')...The public had enough problems plying on this so called highway dealing with huge potholes and kilos of dust entering their lungs...And to rub salt on wounds, we now witness a long queue of mine laden trucks being parked alongside the road, causing hindrance to the already struggling vehicular movement on this road... The queue of these trucks is spread from Kulur to Suratkal, almost covering a distance of an awful ten kilometer stretch...Road blocks are a common sight here, making life difficult not just for the general public to ply smoothly, but also for the policemen who are deputed in the area precisely for maintaining even vehicular movement...The kind of job that these cops are assigned, no wonder they lose their cool, thereby providing many with their stick music...Mangalore SP N Satheesh Kumar recently issued an order to vacate the trucks from the area. However, the order doesn't seem to have been implemented. The trucks continue to occupy most part of the road...The truck drivers though grumble that if they are given a proper place for parking, they will not park their trucks on this road..."Yes, we have been told that we have to vacate this place, but we are not told where we have to go. If they give a proper place for parking, preferably some 30 kilometers away from the city, it would be good for us" says a truck driver from Chitradurga...It has been quite some time now that Mangaloreans try to avoid the Panambur-Suratkal road for all the troubles it has to offer and the new dimension of truck parking to the already existing road problems, are not doing the public any better either...Apart from wastage of time, the polluted atmosphere that the people have to encounter in this region is also a cause of concern... In spite of the order given by the District SP, the trucks continue to trouble traffic with their passive movement on the Kulur-Suratkal stretch...Why is that the order has not translated into immediate action? Why haven't the authorities acted upon? Well, the state politics has been seeing quite a humpty-dumpty ride off late... The Padmapriya incident not withstanding, is this another such case where the state government is playing hide and seek with the people? The earlier these questions are answered, the better it will be for the state...

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