Category: Roads

The government has floated a tender to dismantle the vulnerable portions of the Vivekananda Road flyover, a portion of which had collapsed in March 2016. The government is yet to decide whether the rest of the structure will be pulled down or allowed to stand to facilitate reconstruction of the flyover. Officials said another tender […]

Lenders of Reliance Infrastructure have reached an agreement which grants the Anil Ambani-company a standstill period of 180 days during which it will have to implement a resolution plan. The company on Thursday announced that 16 lenders had signed the inter-creditor agreement (ICA). According to the framework announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) […]

A crack in the cap of pier number 19 was the reason why engineers decided to close the flyover connecting EM Bypass with VIP Road on Tuesday evening. Sources in the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), the custodian of the flyover, said the crack had been noticed a few days ago. A Delhi-based agency hired […]

A seven-minute drive from the base of the closed flyover on EM Bypass till the Hudco crossing stretched to around 40 minutes as buses, cars and two-wheelers fought for every inch of road space. Scores of traffic cops from Calcutta police as well as the Bidhannagar commissionerate struggled to keep vehicles moving as the closure […]

The flyover connecting EM Bypass with VIP Road, a portion of which had collapsed in March 2013, was closed for an indefinite period on Tuesday evening after an agency studying its health noticed cracks in “critical positions”. The flyover, which enables commuters bound for the Bypass from VIP Road or the other way round to […]

An estimated 1.5 lakh pedestrians crossed Prince Anwar Shah Road near South City Mall on Sunday. Result: a long tail of vehicles and an endless wait even for those not headed to the mall. A plan to build a footbridge one of whose arms would directly enter the mall came up for discussion at a […]

Portions of the incomplete Vivekananda Road flyover, a part of which crashed two years ago, will be pulled down as recommended by a committee set up by the state government after the collapse of the Majerhat bridge, officials said on Monday. The committee has suggested that some vulnerable portions of the flyover — ones that […]

I fresh application with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to bar Deloitte Haskins & Sells and BSR Associates, who are the auditors to IL&FS Financial Services, from auditing for five years and to appoint a new auditor for the firm. IL&FS Financial Services is one of the 348 subsidiaries of the IL&FS group, which […]

Newly elected parliamentarian from the city Sanjay Seth on Monday morning inspected the flyover construction site at Kanta Toli, ordering officials of implementing agency Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (Juidco) to complete the project by end-2020 at any cost. With a two-year official deadline from April 2017, Ranchi’s first flyover — a 1,250-metre structure spanning […]

Thousands of trees have been felled for widening Dhanbad’s roads in a classic case of development clashing with the environment, and work on planting trees as replacement has been lagging. Sample this: 2,063 trees have been chopped for the ongoing work of making the 32.75km Govindpur-Mahuda road a four-lane one. A total of 3,142 trees […]

Several youth engaged by a company for security of work sites on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway here held protests seeking release of wages pending for the last six months. The security guards held protest at administrative complex of the company at Dalwass Ramban. They alleged that the assurances given to them by Jammu-based contractor for releasing […]

Steel cables that hold Vidyasagar Setu and the bearings of the bridge have corroded over the years and will be replaced at a cost of about Rs 200 crore, engineers said on Tuesday. Officials of consulting agency RITES, which has been engaged by the state government for the replacement work, said traffic movement would not […]