Barely three days after a police constable died on a pothole-ridden road in Ambernath, another biker died on Friday morning near the Patripul rail overbridge in Ambedkar Nagar, Kalyan, while trying to dodge a crater. When the biker swerved right to avoid a huge pothole, a truck behind the bike knocked down both the riders. One of them died on the spot.

The traffic police at the spot immediately called some workers to fill up the potholes. The auto-rickshaw union members from Dombivli told mid-day that they have begun refusing rides towards Kalyan because of the number of potholes. "There so many potholes on the roads here. This has been the situation for the past many years now. I have been working as a rickshaw driver for 12 years and have decided not to ply passengers towards Kalyan anymore. I am 50 now and suffer from terrible back aches when I drive on the pothole-ridden roads," said Jaywant Shinde, a local auto-rickshaw driver.