The KTC Mapusa bus-stand has innumerable potholes, and the tar has disappeared, causing problems for commuters and vehicles. These potholes pose a danger to bikers and damage their vehicles too. Uncollected garbage too lies all over the place. Thousands of commuters move in and out of the bus-stand every day, with many senior citizens and pregnant women falling and thereby getting injured. Some even end up getting fractures and have to be shifted to hospitals in 108 ambulances. Sometime back, it was really a heart-wrenching sight to see an elderly woman fall and fracture her leg. Good Samaritans, however, called for an ambulance to shift her to the District Hospital. The lady claimed that she had come for shopping as she lived alone and had no one to help her at home. There are innumerable incidents that happen here on a daily basis, but the authorities seem to be insensitive to human suffering.
The Municipality and the government definitely collect taxes from the people, and the public has the right to travel comfortably and also breathe clean air.
Thousands of people make it to the market every day, with most coming on Fridays to the State’s largest market to shop. In summer, the number doubles, with tourists and the Goan diaspora making their way home and visiting the market to take things back with them. With the rains around the corner, the city fathers and mothers should wake up from their slumber and repair the bus-stand and clear the grabage here immediately.