A disaster waiting to happen?

As residents of Karachi, it is increasingly necessary for us to heed the call of the rapidly deteriorating civic infrastructure of our local communities, considering the hindrance it forms to the provision of social welfare and health services in this teeming city of millions.
Considering it my responsibility as a Karachiite, it is with great hope that I implore you, as a luminary of the free press, to take notice of certain grave mishaps, few of the many that take place on a regular basis throughout this great city.
The power of the pen can aptly rouse the attention and perhaps even the outrage that such incidents deserve, hopefully resulting in action from those responsible, but who remain silent at present.
Lyari, affectionately referred to by many as the 'Old Karachi', and a locality that lies so close to the birthplace of the Quaid himself, has slowly but surely fallen into a state of utter disrepair, with its inhabitants finding it increasingly difficult to exist in harmony with their surrounding vicinity.
The West Wharf Bridge that extends from one end of the KPT Flyover into the heart of the Industrial Zone is the lifeblood of the various industries that operate in the area.
Time and uncontrolled acts of crime have taken a heavy toll on the bridge, with entire sections of the metal guard rails having been uprooted for sale in the city's scrap yards by drug addicts, an act that only recently led to the fall of an overcrowded passenger bus over the side of the bridge, with 6 fatalities as a consequence.
Another incident that occurred on this very bridge on the night of 26 May, involved an unnamed citizen of Karachi walking across the unlit bridge, accidentally stepping onto a missing slab of pavement, and consequently falling from a height of over 25 meters onto a mound of garbage below. The fall, and the resulting trauma, not only resulted in broken bones and lacerations, but also in the loss of consciousness.
Road side cleaners made the grisly discovery early next morning, which was when emergency services were called into action to help the victim from his misery.
With the havoc wreaked upon the city of Karachi by the monsoons, the unkempt and uncarpeted roads surrounding the West Wharf Bridge have taken a hard beating.
The disintegration of the area's infrastructure is of concern not only for the inhabitants of West Wharf, but has also disrupted economic activity within the industrial zone.
Where town planners are entrusted with the responsibility of providing improvements in the city's infrastructure, the inhabitants in the vicinity of the West Wharf Bridge are seeing only the repeat of past mistakes.
Ditches that have been dug up at the pretext of revamping the locality's drainage system, remain half completed even 8 months later, resulting in the area being inundated with water. This raises concerns for the integrity of the bridge's structural foundations as rainwater and drainage have accumulated as a consequence.
Such situations force me to ask why incidents like these are allowed to come about, especially in a city that is the economic hub of the nation, a city that deserves the best in facilities to ensure continuing economic and social harmony for all those who live here.
In a city that claims to have millions of rupees of infrastructural development work under process, where is the will to revamp such essential civic amenities, to ensure the safeguard of life and property?
If this one incident can be the harbinger of change for Karachi's social structure, we will have played our humble roles in serving our debts to our city - the birthplace of the founder of this country.