Category: Roads

o put an end to inordinate delays, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTh) had launched ‘ Bharatmala Pariyojana’, an umbrella programme to develop key economic highway corridors in the country. Seven years later, an audit of the programme has revealed that expansion work along the three major high-priority highways, connecting Chennai with other […]

Kolkata: Kolkata Traffic Police said it takes the same time to travel from Park Circus to Red Road-Mayo Road intersection via Park Street as it does via AJC Bose Road flyover and Hospital Road that entails travelling 40% more. This is to encourage motorists to switch to the former route and help reduce traffic load […]

NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said his government would repair all broken roads across the city by December next year. Speaking at a public function in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka, Kejriwal said his government had managed to lay water pipelines in all parts of the city while the work to install sewer lines […]

MUMBAI: The Worli fishing community is firm on the BMC providing compensation to them before the coastal road construction works commence in their area. The BMC has allocated Rs 134 crore for compensation to the affected fishermen between the project years of 2018 and 2024. The compensation will be given to only those certified by […]

MUMBAI: In view of the Ganesh festival and to ensure vehicles carrying idols do not have to navigate potholed and uneven roads, additional municipal commissioner P Velrasu has given instructions to wards and to the roads department to fill potholes on a war footing. Velrasu has directed assistant commissioners of wards, who are also the […]

MUMBAI: Even as the BMC said it cannot make changes to the design of the proposed coastal road (south), a 6.7km stretch from Priyadarshini Park to the Worli-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, the Bombay high court on Wednesday questioned if a court can decide such issues. “Are these issues justiciable by a court?” asked […]

CHENNAI: The state has introduced online applications to get permission for road-cut across the city to curb unnecessary road-cuts. According to a government order from the municipal administration and water supply department, the state has constituted a multi-department committee with top officials from GCC, traffic, Metrowater, Tangedco, highways and water resources department. These officials will […]

MUMBAI: The BMC’s coastal road department has received the go-ahead to compensate 520 fishermen of the 1,343 affected by the ongoing coastal road works so far. Civic officers said an allocation of Rs 134 crore from the coastal road budget of Rs 12,721 has been made for the fishermen affected during the construction period between […]

MUMBAI: Four years after restoration of Lower Parel’s arterial Delisle road over-bridge (ROB) commenced, its reopening has been pushed forward yet again. The BMC, which had proposed to open it up by August 31, has announced that now the works will be completed only by the end of October. The initial deadline for its reopening […]

Activists say some of the best roads are made with asphalt; HC pans civic chiefs across metropolitan region for potholes, asks why they should not face contempt proceedings MUMBAI: The Bombay high court (HC) recently slammed commissioners of local municipal bodies across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) over pothole-ridden roads and summoned them to ask […]

CHENNAI: Bad roads in the city claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl on Monday when she came under the wheels of a speeding water tanker at Kovilambakkam. The child, Leora Sri, and her mother, Keerthi, lost balance on the bumpy road, one side of which had been barricaded by Metrorail, and fell from their […]

VIZIANAGARAM: Fed up with poor upkeep of a road-stretch and vehicular traffic halting for hours due to trucks and other vehicles getting stuck in big potholes on Parvathipuram-Kuneru-Rayagada stretch in Andhra Pradesh limits, the Rayagada Truck Owners Association (RTOA) in Odisha is fixing the big potholes near Kuneru under Komarada Mandal of of AP’s Parvathipuram […]