Portion of bridge collapses, causes traffic blockade

AN INTERNAL road passing through Phase-1, Industrial Area, linking to Chandigarh railway station and CTU workshop was blocked as a portion of the bridge on the road caved in due to high volume of water when a floodgate of Sukhna Lake was opened early on Sunday morning.

The bridge was on the Sukhna choe passing through the Phase 1, Industrial Area. The blocking of roads caused inconvenience to the general public as many CTU buses, private vehicles had to take other routes. Passengers travelling on CTU buses for going to the railway station from ISBT-17 were arranged in different buses, which reach the railway station from other routes instead of Phase-1, Industrial Area.