In a bid to overhaul underground sewerage facilities, Wasa has excavated the main thoroughfare of the area that connects thousands of local residents with the Bishwa Road.

The street, several miles long, starting from the Buddhist Temple near the Atish Deepankar Road up to the Kadamtala Bridge has been thoroughly dug up and wedged with enormous sewerage tubes severely disturbing commuters' movement.

Authorities' indifference towards the haphazard transportation facilities and undertaking such a thorough project in a congested area when monsoon is round the corner has resulted into severe exasperation among the local residents.

"They excavated the streets in such a way that alternative routes are cut off and have been made off bounds to us. Rickshaws, even bicycles cannot make their ways across all this mess," said Mahabub Ahmed, a resident from Bashabo Kadamtala.

"The street is around 10-12 feet wide, now if they dig up 5-feet wide burrows and arbitrarily put huge pipes, how can we move," he said.

The lengthy burrows and the tubes have narrowed down the streets that can barely accommodate two cross passing pedestrians, let alone vehicles.

In this situation the residents are compelled to walk long distances. Trudging through deep burrows and gigantic sewerage tubes they finally reach the main road and board transports to reach their destinations.

"If we take rickshaws they take long circuitous routes and charge outrageous fare for the extra effort," said Ziaul Huq, a resident from Madartek.

The situation becomes only more complicated for private car owners.

"I cannot bring my car out of the garage as the street in front of the house is dug up. Now it has been a couple of weeks since the car has been totally stranded," said a Jalal Ahmed, a resident from Kadamtala.

Some car owners have to take a detour of several kilometres through unpaved alleyways to reach the bypass roads.

"The first few days were nightmarish as we kept running out of route options while they kept expanding their project area," said Jalal Ahmed.

"This is the street that connects all the alleyways making it a hub of the whole region. Digging it up is quite agonising," said Saiful Islam, a local resident.

An official source of Wasa's drainage circle said that the entire drainage circle of Bashabo is choked with sand and solid wastes as all the nearby water bodies and flood flow zones have been filled up.

Wasa is equipping the drainage circle of Bashabo area with modern equipments to keep the underground sewerage flowing and reduce water logging in the upcoming monsoon season, said the source.

"We are aware of the sufferings of the local residents of Bashabo. We have requested them to be patient for their own convenience in the long run," said Jafrul Alam.

"Although we are facing problem as the streets are narrow and the sewerage lines choked, we are hopeful that the work would be done within this month provided that everything goes according to the plan," he added.