This summer the Nepali government managed to push forward a new project to widen the roads throughout Kathmandu. There is a lot of traffic in the city and it probably is good that they are doing something to plan for it, but the road construction is causing a bit of a mess. This project is also a serious challenge because it means that stores and homes along the roads need to be partially destroyed in order to widen the roads.
Everywhere throughout the city (not section by section, as one might imagine), teams of workers have been tearing down walls or the facades of buildings - sometimes even leaving part of a room half exposed after taking down a front wall.
The photo above shows a typical street in my area. Both sides of the street are being worked on simultaneously and brick walls are being taken down and replaced with a new wall just a few feet behind it. It causes a lot of traffic issues and so far it's taking ages to get the rubble removed! The property owners in this area are lucky that it is only their walls that need to be moved and not the actually building/house structure.
Everywhere throughout the city (not section by section, as one might imagine), teams of workers have been tearing down walls or the facades of buildings - sometimes even leaving part of a room half exposed after taking down a front wall.
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