The government on Wednesday approved the amendments proposed in the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model for the national highways. Public-funded national highway (NH) projects that are operational and have toll revenue generation history of one year after the commercial operations date will be monetised through the TOT model. The monetisation will be subject to the approval of […]
Category: Roads
Spare Tallah water pipes, CMC tells bridge team
The pipes that carry water from the 110-year-old Tallah water tank to nearly half of Calcutta cannot be disturbed when the Tallah bridge will be rebuilt, engineers of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation have told their counterparts in the PWD. Eight pipes carry around 230 million gallons of water every day from the reservoir to large […]
Advice for new Kalighat bridge
A bridge that connects Alipore with Kalighat over Tolly’s Nullah has come under the scanner for poor health. Engineers, who conducted a health study of Kalighat bridge, have concluded that replacing the structure with a new one would be ideal. The engineers have said that the bridge was too weak to bear heavy load and […]
Bhutni bridge to open today
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will on Tuesday inaugurate a 1.5km-long bridge built over the Ganga to connect the Bhutni island on the river with the mainland. She will also open a bridge connecting Malda in Bengal with the Katihar district of Bihar. The bridge over the Fulhar will reduce the distance between Malda and Katihar […]
Centre preparing for electronic toll collection from December
The Centre is deputing officials across states for the rollout of electronic toll collection at all toll plazas of the National Highways Authority of India nationwide from December 1, 2019, according to a statement. December 1 onwards, toll payments will be only via FASTag under the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) programme, the flagship initiative […]
The ill-health of Calcutta bridges spells much more than logistical doom
Safe to say that when Mamata Banerjee won the historic Bengal elections of 2011 and promised to turn Calcutta into London, she did not mean to make real olden rhymes of falling bridges, et al. And yet, over the past few years Calcutta has been experiencing an acute bridge crisis. In 2013 one flank of […]
Police solution day after: make road narrower
Police think narrowing down a stretch of wide, smooth road using difficult-to-spot traffic guardrails can prevent car crashes. The Bidhannagar commissionerate on Wednesday placed five iron guardrails in a zig-zag fashion near the spot on Major Arterial Road in New Town where a speeding Honda City had met with a fatal accident early on Tuesday. […]
Lack of repair takes toll on Adityapur bridge
Potholes and craters have developed on the surface of Adityapur toll bridge, leading to the inconvenience of commuters who use this key stretch to travel to and from Kadma. “When the bridge was opened to the public in 2011, I thought it was a gift to the residents of both the steel city and adjoining […]
Fresh hurdle to widening of NH12
Widening of the 67km stretch of NH12 between Krishnagar and Baro Jagulia in Nadia, which kicked off a few days ago, has run into a rough patch after a section of owners of 1,500 shops and other makeshift structures refused to move out demanding better compensation. Sources in the district administration said about 90 per […]
Plan for RG Kar Road
State government has decided to conduct a traffic survey to find out whether a foot overbridge or an underpass can be built near the RG Kar Medical College on RG Kar Road that is now experiencing heavy vehicular load following the closure of Tallah bridge to heavy vehicles. Since the closure of Tallah bridge to […]
Government seeks tender for Hooghly bridge repair
The Bengal government has invited tenders for a Rs 154-crore repair job of the 27-year-old second Hooghly bridge that includes replacing some of its 152 cables and underwater investigation of its piers. So far, there have been piece-meal repairs of the bridge’s external surface, including replacement of expansion joints and relaying of the bituminous surface. […]
Footbridge on cards for Tatanagar Station
Tatanagar station will get its third footbridge within one year.The engineering wing of Tatanagar railway has prepared a blueprint of the Rs2-crore project under which the third footbridge would come up next to the first one at the Kharagpur end of the station.Currently, the A1-categroty station has two footbridges. The second bridge, costing Rs 1.90 […]