99% of Delhi NCR people driving Mahindra's XUV, Thar and Scorpio are mentally ill.
Stay 100mtr away from them and politely change your lane if u see them in the rear mirror.
Dubai has spent $47.6 billion on roads and transport in the last 20 years. That's the short answer.
The longer answer is about excellent execution: 25,000+ lane-kilometers of road, 3.5 million vehicles on them every day, and a fleet of 752 cleaning vehicles running around the clock. 35 of those are dedicated highway sweepers. On windy days, sand piling up on roads triggers up to 20 emergency calls a day just to clear it.
And it never stays clean. Sandstorm season runs from June to September. In April 2022, a wall of sand hit the city at 80 km/h, causing 14 major pile-ups on Sheikh Zayed Road, delaying 300+ flights, and turning the Burj Khalifa into a red blur for hours. Then it all had to be cleaned again.
Every drop of water used to wash those roads is manufactured. 99.5% of Dubai's water comes from desalinated seawater. The Jebel Ali plant, the world's largest, processes 2.2 million cubic meters a day. People in the Gulf states use about 560 liters of water per person per day. The global average is 180. None of it falls from the sky. It's pumped from the Persian Gulf, filtered through massive plants, and piped across the city.
The workforce doing this is almost entirely migrant labor. Foreign workers make up 96% of Dubai's private sector, with workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka accounting for 90% of the total. Every Dubai resident pays a 5% fee on their annual rent through their electricity bill, which partly funds street cleaning.
Dubai's 2026 budget hit a record $27.1 billion. 48% of that goes to infrastructure: roads, bridges, tunnels, waste management. The three-year plan for 2026-2028 totals $82 billion.
Clean desert roads aren't magic. They're 752 machines running nonstop, ocean water turned drinkable, millions of migrant workers, and a $27 billion budget fighting the sand every day.
@FinPopcorn@haryannvi Even now, it's the same. Only good and relatively cleaner areas are sec 14, and 15. Sector 9 is also good. But it's a pity even in these areas, none of the roads have pavement, nor streetlights.
The entire garbage crisis in this country can be solved with just one initiative.
Every Sunday, a few volunteers collect garbage from different areas & dump it in front of minister’s house.
This must be done every Sunday in every city.
The issue will be fixed within a month!
@PaiRaveen But the complacent attitude regarding cleanliness and waste dumping is appalling. Just got shifted here due to my job, and got instant regret.
Greater FBD is way better.
Train started from Kashmere Gate, to Old Faridabad, violet line at 8.35pm today. This is how the train was sent, empty. No cleaning was done... @OfficialDMRC#delhimetro
@Gabbar0099 She doesn't know the ground reality. Ask her to visit the ancient temples in Kanniyakumari district to see how dilapidated they are without any maintenance done in the whole decade.
@BDMOFA@bdhc_delhi You people don't deserve to even have a single building in our nation. Get out of our land you thankless Dhakaites. Getting free healthcare from India and killing our brothers. How dare you
IndiGo had 18 months’ notice and still showed up unprepared, while Air India hired 500 pilots in advance.
This mess is pure IndiGo mismanagement, blackmail and arrogance.
Shame on you @IndiGo6E
The dirtiest station in Delhi metro?? @shahidsthalmetro. @OfficialDMRC . Please clean this station, the side of escalators was worse, with spit and pigeon excreta.