How to fix a road. Chengalpet style.

Step 1: Find a small tiny road which is simultaneously used by lorries, trucks, cars, share autos, bikes, stray dogs, grazing cows, a couple of pigs and my cycle. This road must be too small to permit two-way traffic, and so who has to go off-road depends on a clear hierarchy based on size (though pedestrians still rank higher than my cycle)

Step 2: Dig up the entire side of the road making it tinier by half, because it wasnt a big enough challenge already to look death in the face every time you pass someone

Step 3: Wait for the rains to convert your open grave on the side of the road into a swimming pool

Step 4: Add a bunch of stones to spill all over the road. Because punctured tyres are fun.

Step 4: Watch as this small tiny road continues to simultaneously be used by lorries, trucks, cars, share autos, bikes, stray dogs, grazing cows, a couple of pigs and my cycle, effectively disproving Pauli's exclusion principle.

Of course there is always the alternative route. In this particular case, it looks like this:

As the saying goes, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And they were both equally bad"

But then I complain too much. I'm sure the road will be fixed one day, and the two opposing lanes of traffic will live in harmony once more. 

And when that day comes, I'm sure my grandkids will be around to enjoy it.