The heavy rain that lashed the city on Tuesday evening saw TenderSURE and Smart City roads, pitched as a panacea for road infrastructure gaps in the city, heavily inundated, raising questions among citizens.
The recently completed Smart City roads Rhenius Street and Kamaraj Street were inundated and water took several hours to recede. Videos of UB City road, one of the first TenderSURE roads, flooded with waist length water, went viral on social media. Several others like Cunningham Road, Vittal Mallya Road, and Residency Road also saw water logging.
A senior traffic police official said the problem on most of these streets was that the water outlets were not in tune with the gradient of the road, leading to water stagnation. He also said the civic body rarely cleaned out the tertiary drains by the side of these streets, which significantly reduces their carrying capacity. “The civic body needs to maintain the drains regularly and at certain points sync the water outlets with the road gradient,” the official said.
