The 57-year-old Tallah bridge, which in many ways resembles the now fallen Majerhat bridge in design, bears signs of extreme stress, engineers said after an inspection on Saturday.
The concrete has peeled off in some parts of the underbelly of the bridge that takes about half of Calcutta’s truckload and the heavily corroded steel cable-ducts have been bared.
The bridge has been closed to heavy goods vehicles indefinitely, something that would be good news for commuters along BT Road who often complained about the congestion caused by the smoke belchers, but a graver possibility is that the entire bridge may have to be shut down after Puja fore a more detailed study of how bad the damage is.
