Category: Roads

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has set a three-month deadline for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and four hill municipalities to complete projects. Mamata stressed the need to develop more tourist sites and suggested that more traders and shopkeepers accept dollars from foreign visitors. Mamata complained about frequent disturbances hampering development work in the hills before […]

Widening of a key National Highway stretch in Nadia stuck for several years over land-acquisition problems started on Wednesday after the state stepped in to remove the hurdles. The four-laning of the 67km stretch of NH12 (previously NH34) between Baro Jagulia and Krishnagar had been hit as the portion had encroachments and the Mamata Banerjee […]

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 […]

The proposed bridge over the tracks at Tallah will be about 6m wider than the existing one with a load-bearing capacity of close to 400 tonnes if the government and the railways okay the PWD proposal. The present bridge has a load-bearing capacity of about 250 tonnes. Engineers of various agencies that ran a health […]

Angry residents of Vidyapatinagar under ward 2 of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Thursday alleged the civic body had turned a deaf ear to their pleas to clear the massive waterlogging on the road linking their colony with Gandhinagar. The residential colony on Kanke Road, 1.5km from the CM’s residence, where around 10,000 people stay, […]

These were some of the options tabled at a meeting held on Thursday to deal with the traffic mess that the closure of the ailing Tallah bridge is expected to trigger. An engineer appointed by the Bengal government to assess the condition of the 57-year-old bridge, a key link between Calcutta and the northern fringe, […]

An engineer appointed by the Mamata Banerjee government to inspect the Tallah bridge has said the structure is in a “rotten” condition and should be demolished, officials said. The engineer has also said in his report that even light vehicles should not be allowed on the north Calcutta bridge for more than two months, by […]

Buses and minibuses will not ply on the Tallah bridge as no one from the various agencies, which ran a health check on the structure, agreed to allow them on it. At two separate meetings in Nabanna on Tuesday, engineers from consultancy firm RITES, railways and the PWD said the “frail structure” could not bear […]

The bus ban on the Tallah bridge and the absence of the Majerhat bridge, which had collapsed in September last year, have paralysed traffic in large areas of north and south Calcutta. Residents of many areas said the chaos was such that even ambulances and fire tenders would fail to reach the destinations on time. […]

The Tallah bridge is not even fit for pedestrian movement and should ideally be shut down, this is what a consultant who studied the health of the bridge had recommended. The highways division of engineering subsidiary RITES had flagged the problem after an inspection in late August. Engineers from the state public works department, railways […]

The state government wants to run buses and minibuses on the Tallah bridge till October 11 but engineers have warned that it could prove disastrous and the structure might collapse. A meeting has been convened on Tuesday at Nabanna where senior officers will be discussing whether the ban on buses and minibuses will stay or […]

he familiar snarl on Tallah bridge is likely to be replaced by a longer one on roads leading to it because cars will not be allowed to stop on the bridge and police have to ensure that there is no queue of vehicles on the 57-year-old structure. Bus movement on the bridge will be stopped […]