MUMBAI: With heavy rains lashing Mumbai over the past few days, complaints of potholes on roads have surfaced again this year. Motorists have said that the Western Express Highway has been one of the worst hit. According to civic data, complaints received by the BMC in the period between June 1 and 30 has been 93, of which around 49 have been attended to.
The BMC allows ward-level officers to attend to potholes, as well as central agency staff who have been making use of rapid gardening concrete and reactive asphalt techniques for filling up craters. BMC said that by making use of reactive asphalt the road can be opened up to traffic in merely two hours.
