Death traps

The way public infrastructures are left unattended shows criminal apathy of authorities to citizen safety.

“Under construction” or “under maintenance” is the permanent state of Nepal’s roads, more so in the case of those in the Kathmandu Valley. The Valley roads, dug at the whims of one agency or another and perennially left open, look as if they are just waiting for an unassuming victim to fall in the ditches. And with the monsoon floods dampening the citizens’ skills of circumnavigating those ditches, the roads often become death traps.