Click to play videoMumbai: According to the Bombay High Court's deadline to the BMC, every pothole should have been filled by now. But there are plenty of those still remain in Mumbai.
Such is the condition that, while moving on some Mumbai roads, windscreen inside a taxi often appears as a gaming console of a reality video game.
For 32-year-old Tiwari, a taxi driver, negotiating the treacherous roads in Mumbai is a daily affair.
"Roads are so bad that sometimes our wheels come off. At times our suspensions break. Even if a nut comes off, we have to get a mechanic, repairing it is so much trouble," says Tiwari.
And this is the reason, which keeps the garages in Mumbai perpetually packed with damaged taxis. But spending a day in a garage for repair costs Tiwari a substantial loss of daily earnings.
The floors of the cars also get rusted to such an extent that their owners are forced to change it at least once every two years.
It pains Ravinder Singh, who's just bought a new car to ply on Mumabi roads. And as much as the efforts to keep his new car in pristine shape, he feels the roads are just creating hole in his pocket.
"Even roads that are repaired are so shoddy. All they have done is fill it up with stones. Most of my car parts have already started showing signs of wear and tear," says Ravinder Ramsingh.
But the drivers, who shuttle along daily, hope that one day they might wake up to a smooth Shanghai Expressway.
While others have the option of not brining their cars onto such roads, for taxi drivers, it's a liberty they can ill-afford.
Because, this is the only source of earning a living, they say, "BMC samjhe ya na samjhe, saab, yeh tho pett ka sawaal hain". (BMC understands or not, sir, this is the matter of our bread and butter).
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