There is a video circulating on WhatsApp where a car is shown ploughing through a flooded road on a bridge that appears to be the Atal Setu. It looks like the stretch of the climb from the Merces side that leads towards Porvorim. This problem needs to be verified since we have seen flooded roads on flat land but rarely on bridges. This should qualify as one of the Wonders of the World!
But jokes apart, Larsen & Toubro, (L&T), the contractor responsible for the construction of the bridge should be hauled up in court and the Goa government should seek immediate corrective action and damages. If the designer of the bridge is other than L&T, then the designer should also be made a party to the case. Other than the flooding, we have seen potholes on the road surface of the bridge which the government has been taking post-haste action to repair.
Thus it is apparent that there are serious flaws in the design and construction of Atal Setu. This for a bridge that was not immediately required with 2 bridges across the Mandovi already operating, spending an obscene amount of money on it and the bridge running into overruns and still not complete to this date.
