Before it’s a smooth ride, you will have to go through a real rough patch. A new four-laned highway on the Jalandhar-Nakodar road makes life of the citizens taking to the road from here all the way to Nakodar and beyond (to Moga-Barnala) much easier than it was years ago. However, right before this thoroughfare begins a patch of unkempt, dangerous stretch on the Nakodar highway has been making people’s lives miserable for ages.