KOLKATA: Police on Thursday started a two-day trial of traffic diversion on Basanti Highway off EM Bypass before a 28m girder is launched for the New Garia-Airport Metro corridor. The traffic diversions should be in place from Saturday and the middle of the road as been freed for the next 10 days to facilitate the Metro work.
\nAccording to the traffic plans, south- and east-bound vehicles headed for Basanti Highway will take the service road in front of Pragati Maidan fire station. Those from Basanti Highway will use the 10m-wide concrete road built by RVNL over the canal. \u201cThe traffic scheme worked out. There was no congestion during Thursday\u2019s trials,\u201d an officer said.
\nRail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), implementing the 32km New Garia-Airport Metro corridor, is set to launch the girders over the twin canals next to Basanti Highway, considered a challenging job . \u201cFilling the viaduct from PC Chandra till the upcoming Ritwik Ghatak station has been a complex work, with girder launching starting a year ago. The next 150m gap till Ritwik Ghatak station will be filled in five stages. For the first stage, the 28m gap between piers 220A and 228 will be filled,\u201d a senior RVNL engineer said. RVNL has launched 25 segments from piers 221 to 245.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOLKATA: Police on Thursday started a two-day trial of traffic diversion on Basanti Highway off EM Bypass before a 28m girder is launched for the New Garia-Airport Metro corridor. The traffic diversions should be in place from Saturday and the middle of the road as been freed for the next 10 days to facilitate the Metro work. According to the traffic plans, south- and east-bound vehicles headed for Basanti Highway will take the service road in front of Pragati Maidan fire station. Those from Basanti Highway will use the 10m-wide concrete road built by RVNL over the canal. \u201cThe traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}