What do you do when an expressway starts falling apart just days after a grand inauguration? Put fans to work.
PNC Infratech, the contractor responsible for the Rs 4,200 crore Lucknow-Kanpur expressway, deployed pedestal fans at a damaged stretch of the newly opened corridor after parts of the country’s first e-way equipped with AI-based traffic management systems caved in.
Pictures of around a dozen fans lined up at the repair site, near the damaged Unnao-Lucknow-bound carriageway, surfaced on social media and quickly drew criticism and jibes.
The stretch under restoration needs its sub-base course to be filled with binding material before bitumen and asphalt can be laid on the surface. However, persistent wet conditions have slowed the repair work, with fresh cracks also reportedly appearing around the repaired portion.
