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Miffed implicit the prolonged closure of the arterial Fort Station Road to facilitate the operation of the overbridge adjacent the Fort Railway Station, metropolis residents and autobus operators person sought urgent steps to expedite the project.
Construction enactment began successful March 2024 and should person been completed by now. But it has been dragging on, overmuch to the chagrin of the residents. With the roadworthy being closed for astir 2 years now, the regular commute had go an ordeal for galore metropolis residents arsenic vehicles person instrumentality a detour via the constrictive Thennur High Road oregon the Karur Bypass and the Chathiram Bus Stand.
Both the Thennur High Road and the Karur Bypass had been facing terrible postulation congestion, particularly during the highest hours. The Thennur overbridge is successful request of urgent repairs owed to the gaps successful enlargement joints and motorists look a risky thrust owed to the dense traffic, residents complain.
“The Thennur Road is witnessing terrible congestion close from Puthur up to the Ramakrishna Junction owed to the postulation diversions. It is scary to thrust a two-wheeler connected the constrictive Thennur overbridge these days,” said N. Jamaluddin, a nonmigratory of Anna Nagar.
“The overbridge should beryllium completed astatine the earliest arsenic some passengers and autobus operators are facing hardship. The closure of the roadworthy has triggered a batch of postulation issues,” said D.R. Dharmaraj, Secretary, Tiruchi District Bus Operators Association.
He said that buses headed to Chathiram Bus Stand via Main Guard Gate present person to instrumentality a detour via the Anna Statue successful Chinthamani to scope the outer autobus stand. “Passengers person been deprived of nonstop connectivity to the Main Guard Gate country andt hey person to alight astatine Chathiram Bus Stand and instrumentality different autobus basal to scope Main Guard Gate oregon Singarathope. Similarly, passengers to Thillai Nagar and Woraiyur from Mainguard Gate/Singarathope person to instrumentality 2 buses,” helium pointed retired pressing for the expeditious completion of the caller bridge.
The caller span adjacent the Fort Railway Station successful the metropolis is being built jointly by the Railways and the Tiruchi Corporation. It was sanctioned aft the constrictive aged bridge, built successful 1876, had turned anemic and a information of its retaining partition connected the eastbound broadside of the attack roadworthy caved successful during dense rainfall successful July 2020.
While the Railways are gathering the main span operation connected its information (above the railway lines connected the Tiruchi-Karur section), the Corporation is engaged successful gathering the attack roads connected either broadside of the railway enactment astatine a outgo of ₹34.10 crore. The aged British-built constrictive span was demolished to marque mode for the caller one.
When contacted, a elder Railway authoritative supervising the work, said though determination were immoderate hold successful procuring the precocious people alloy required for the project, the contented had been sorted retired now. “Work is nether mode connected the sub operation now; the materials for the ace operation person arrived. We expect to implicit the enactment by April oregon latest by May,” the serviceman said.
