What does BMC use for surfacing the roads?!? … water-soluble tar?!??

Just over a week of rains has been experienced and most non-concretised roads in Mumbai are already competing with the surface of an asteroid!!!

Update: Even though I don’t see a good enough reason for doing so, I can accept that some small roads and lanes may develop potholes during the Mumbai rains. But when a high profile road like the Western Express Highway develops severe potholes that reduce the fast-moving highway traffic to a crawl, it is time to for the people to ask serious questions of the people responsible for these sort of situation. The MMRDA authorities claim that they had re-surfaced the road just to bring it to a safe state prior to the monsoon. But since I’ve been travelling regularly on that road, I can say that the road was in an infinitely better shape prior to the re-surfacing! … and would’ve survived the monsoon without needing any repairs! The potholes are merely on the newly laid surface. The old surface beneath is good enough! The pre-monsoon re-surfacing is a MMRDA scam to keep the contractors happy!! And it also manages to keep them happy coz the road needs further repairing once the potholes appear and people start complaining!!