Bengaluru, the IT hub of India, often remains in news for its inferior road infrastructure, and the potholes till date have claimed many lives in the city too. While the issue has been raised by the residents several times, netizens recently shared a video of a machine that can fix a pothole within 5 minutes.
Potholes in the city
In Bengaluru, potholes and poor roads have created a huge problem for the citizen. These are so dangerous that they even claim lives. However, despite activists, citizens, and even traffic cops going out of their way to take action, the problem continues to exist.
Motorists commuting on such roads have begun to take yoga lessons. Reason: To heal the back pain caused by potholes! Fed up by the poor condition of roads in the city, the residents even came up with a unique way to lodge their protest. The citizens geo-tagged a pothole on Google Maps, and in no time, it started getting reviews as well.
Pothole repairing machines
Netizens recently shared a video of a machine that can fix a pothole within 5 minutes. They even urged the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to buy this modern machine.
Bengaluru desperately need this truck which fixes potholes in 5 minutes.pic.twitter.com/8MPq9POezR
— Karnataka Index (@KarnatakaIndex9) October 8, 2022
A quick fix for terrible city roads comes in the form of truck-mounted pothole-repairing machines that can complete in five minutes. Normally, a delegation of workers usually needs more than 30 minutes to do but this machine could handle the problem in minutes.
A road can be reopened to traffic almost instantly after the potholes are fixed, unlike when manual repairs are carried out. The machine just requires 15-minute to fix several potholes on the same stretch, something that is almost impossible for workers to do manually.
Well, it’s not that the BBMP has never tried to go with such machines. Years ago, The civic body had a machine imported from Canada that can fix hundreds of potholes every week. It was fully automatic and can be used even during rain.
But, unfortunately, those machines bought by BBMP were never really used effectively. And till now no one knows what happened to them.
Twitter Reactions
These technologies won't work as they will block profits of contractors-politician-bbmp cliques ?
— Ananda Gundurao (@Anandagundurao) October 8, 2022
Do we know where these machines are? The ones that bbmp purchased a few years ago? https://t.co/pLU2tpbMLM
— Kris (@upillaitweet) October 8, 2022
This is not going to workout in Bengaluru.. This equipment will simply hang and go to deadlock by seeing Bengaluru's potholes.?
— AAM AADMI (@MyNameIsUKM) October 8, 2022
Full road is made of low class tar material. Riding such a machine itself will break the road further.
— kesari (@anuvigyani) October 8, 2022
In Java we have OutOfMemoryException
If this trucks works on BBMP roads will say OutOfPotholeException— Deepanshu Chopra (@chopra_deeps) October 8, 2022
If your shirt has a small tear, one can darn the tear and fix it…..but tough to darn a mosquito net….
— Mukesh Kadab (@KadabMukesh) October 8, 2022
It can fix only 50 potholes per day. HSR layout alone will need atleast 10 of them
— Ravikumar B (@ravikbh) October 8, 2022
