While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed Pa­pourie Road, Bar­rack­pore, as a drain, many res­i­dents say it is much worse.

Res­i­dents called it a po­ten­tial death trap, which sees them nav­i­gat­ing pre­car­i­ous land­slips and crum­bling as­phalt.

A vi­tal link be­tween San Fer­nan­do and Moru­ga, the 15-kilo­me­tre road runs from SS Erin Road in Phillip­ine to Lengua Vil­lage. It is a painstak­ing dri­ve that not on­ly jars the bod­ies of mo­torists and com­muters, but al­so leaves ve­hi­cles dam­aged—the sound of un­der­car­riages scrap­ing against the tat­tered sur­face has be­come all too fa­mil­iar.