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.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    17 days ago

    Wow I’m shocked that right wing religious extremists are shit at governing!

    • Life is Tetris@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      You’d be even more shocked that left-wing politicos, who were in power thrice as long, were equally bad and created the mess that has to be managed.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        What year do you consider these theoretical people to have been in power? When did their reign of terror end?

        • Life is Tetris@leminal.spaceEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          haha. The Congress is not left-wing? The party that decreed we were a “socialist,” secular republic? Is the current government doing anything that is not a continuation of what previous ones were doing?