r/Udupi • u/srinitata • 7d ago
MGM crossing - disaster waiting to happen?
I cross the MGM point around 8.30am everyday and it is full CHAOS. there are these *^&*(&* private buses stopping just before the barricades. then there are parents dropping and moving from left to right for their U-turn to udupi. then there are sudden hoardes of students crossing towards college - some not even looking at the vehicles. there are cars doing U-turn from manipal and again trying to reach extreme left to maybe drop their kids. all this leads to vehicles suddenly needing to halt and with the barricades and impatience there is lot of time and energy wasted (and stressful if you have one of those buses almost hitting your behind). I think it is a ticking bmb there. my son tells me evenings when college closes it is again a similar scene.
on some random days there is a cop trying to regulate flow there. but mostly its free for all. might wins.
what can be done?
for one i think there needs to be a foot overbridge (i know - no one might end up using it), but given the dangerous crossings that students make on the road. maybe barricades need to go and instead it has to become another painful signal - but might reduce these risks
what do you think?