This monsoon in Mumbai is no different from many previous seasons in one respect: thousands of potholes on the city’s roads. As it happens every year, potholes appear on the roads, including on the city’s arterial roads, leading to not only delays and disruptions in the movement of traffic but also the loss of innocent lives.

This is unequivocally unpardonable. Thousands of crores have been spent in the past decade to improve the condition of the nearly 2,000 km road length, but the problem of potholes persists. This has to do with the technology adopted to both lay the roads and manage their maintenance through different seasons.

Indeed, the usage of roads, including by heavy........

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