The ban on buses and heavy goods vehicles on the Tallah bridge is taking its toll on Metro with train passengers experiencing a “stampede-like situation”. Commuters accessing thoroughfares including VIP Road, Jessore Road and Dum Dum Road are spending double the time than they usually did. Metro takes stock of the chaos and congestion. Metro […]
Category: Roads
Bad roads, risky piers spark worry in Calcutta
The ban on buses on the Tallah bridge kicked in on Sunday morning but the roads through which they are being diverted are dotted with potholes or have become narrower because of parked vehicles. Metro toured the roads on Sunday morning and found that the poor condition of the roads and parking could trigger huge […]
Pakistan invites Manmohan Singh to Kartarpur corridor inauguration
Islamabad will invite Manmohan Singh for the inauguration of the Kartarpur Corridor in November, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday. The gesture comes at a time when relations between India and Pakistan have soured over the withdrawal of special status to Jammu and Kashmir by the Narendra Modi-led government. Pakistan Prime Minister […]
Steps in place to cut Tallah bridge load
The Tallah bridge is in a precarious condition and the government is taking temporary measures to reduce load on it. A load test will be conducted soon to decide whether the bridge should be completely shut down or small and light vehicles can be allowed on it. A bar on movement of buses means a […]
Hint of bus ban on ailing Tallah bridge
The Tallah bridge, a busy link between the city and the northern fringes, is too weak to take the load of even buses and light goods vehicles, a meeting at Nabanna concluded on Thursday. Officials said chief minister Mamata Banerjee would take the final decision on whether buses would be completely barred from the 57-year-old […]
Mayor Firhad Hakim unhappy with broken Bypass
Mayor Firhad Hakim expressed dissatisfaction over broken stretches of the EM Bypass during an inspection of the city’s roads late on Wednesday. Hakim, also the urban development minister, told engineers of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) to ensure prompt repair of the road. Hakim got down from his car near the transport department’s office […]
Evacuation likely under weakened Tallah bridge
The state government wants to immediately evacuate the 200-odd people who live under the old and ailing Tallah bridge, sources in the government said. The chief secretary has called a high-level meeting on Wednesday morning, just four days after he chaired a meeting on Friday to discuss the health of the bridge. Engineers of the […]
Kidderpore road set to miss Puja date
Satya Doctor Road in Kidderpore, which was closed for repairs over a week ago after residents blocked it, is unlikely to be opened before Puja, civic officials said on Tuesday. Mayor Firhad Hakim visited the road on Tuesday to review the repairs. The road, linking Karl Marx Sarani with the port area, was in a […]
Rs 10cr for four roads in Ranchi
Ranchi Municopal Corporation on Tuesday decided that the slashed parking fares will become effective from next month, and the state urban development sanctioned Rs 10 crore for filling up potholes and resurfacing of four smart roads in the state capital ahead of Durga Puja. The traffic coordination committee of the civic body also decided to […]
Age weighs heavy on Tallah bridge
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 […]
Finally, green nod for widening NH-33 along Dalma
Widening work on a 15km-stretch of NH-33 along Dalma sanctuary will gain momentum with the Union ministry of environment and forest granting wildlife clearance, pending for over two years, earlier this month. “The state government gave us the wildlife clearance issued by the Union ministry earlier this month. This has cleared all hurdles and will […]
No need for scrutiny of project estimates, CPWD tells home ministry
The Central Public Works Department, a major central government authority, has requested the Ministry of Home Affairs not to examine its project estimates as it causes delay in taking up the construction works. In a letter to Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, CPWD Director General Prabhakar Singh said it has been observed that proposals […]