There was this vague talk a few years back that the GHMC(greater hyderabad municipal corporation) was planning to dig up all the roads and lay one large pipeline all over the city. Any one needing to lay cable/pipe, must rent this pipeline and just thread their cable through this pipeline. It would fetch revenue for the GHMC, minimise the work for the canle laying organisation and best of all, save us, the common people from the relentless digging up of roads.
As with all good ideas, it fell by the wayside.
Two years back, the electricity supplier, APTRANSCO dug up all the major roads ..some 10-15 ft wide and 10 ft deep (I think), causing a drive to buy vegetables, to become a matter of life and death. You could, at anytime, be edged into the seemingly bottomless pit with your car. I had to watch helplessly a couple of times, when a tractor/car scraped and dented my car since there was no space to move away. After about a year, they filled up these trenches. However, one monsoon later, these patched up part of the roads sank. Now we have free roller coaster rides on our way to work.
This whole exercise was meant to convert all overhead electric lines to underground cables. Now, two years later, there are no underground cables, only uneven roads to remind us of our ordeals.
As with all good ideas, it fell by the wayside.
Two years back, the electricity supplier, APTRANSCO dug up all the major roads ..some 10-15 ft wide and 10 ft deep (I think), causing a drive to buy vegetables, to become a matter of life and death. You could, at anytime, be edged into the seemingly bottomless pit with your car. I had to watch helplessly a couple of times, when a tractor/car scraped and dented my car since there was no space to move away. After about a year, they filled up these trenches. However, one monsoon later, these patched up part of the roads sank. Now we have free roller coaster rides on our way to work.
This whole exercise was meant to convert all overhead electric lines to underground cables. Now, two years later, there are no underground cables, only uneven roads to remind us of our ordeals.
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