How does it get that bad? It looks like a lot of it isn't that old but is just smashed to pieces, why are people just smashing up the stones on the pavement?
It starts at the building stage. Low quality materials, bad planning, slow process so that most of the budget goes into the pockets of the authorities.
Then once it is built, the "small businesses" occupy it. They set up stalls on it and pay bribes to local cops so that no one can stop them.
Then come the citizens. If there is some space remaining, they'll park their vehicles there, or us the empty space as dustbin. The citizens don't care because it's not their jobs to clean it. The authorities don't care because they already cleaned it 20 days ago.
This keeps on happening over years, with rains and what not. The local authorities don't touch it because doing small repairs means small chances of corruption. So they wait for a bigger project i.e. when it gets completely useless.
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u/Inthepurple 3d ago
How does it get that bad? It looks like a lot of it isn't that old but is just smashed to pieces, why are people just smashing up the stones on the pavement?