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 check on the bridge advised the government to pull down the bridge, terming its condition “precarious”, following which heavy vehicles were banned on the bridge.
Engineers from consultancy firm RITES, railways and the PWD said the “frail structure” could not bear the load of any vehicle weighing more than three tonnes and that any additional load could “prove disastrous”.
