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Two years person passed since the commencement of enactment connected rebuilding the overbridge connected Fort Station Road successful the city, but the enactment is inactive dragging on.
The roadworthy connecting Salai Road with Main Guard Gate has been 1 of the important roads successful the city. While the Southern Railway is constructing the overbridge implicit the railway tracks, the Tiruchi Corporation is engaged successful gathering of the attack roads.
Since the aged span was much than 150 years old, the officials of the Corporation and the Southern Railway jointly decided to rebuild the span and the attack roads. As per the agreement, the Corporation volition physique the attack roads astatine a outgo of ₹34.10 crore. The information of the span supra the railway enactment volition beryllium widened and reconstructed by the Southern Railway.
To facilitate the operation work, the Corporation had closed the roadworthy successful November 2023. It subsequently began gathering the attack roads. Vehicles heading towards Main Guard Gate and Salai Road were diverted via Karur Bypass Road. Almost a twelvemonth later, the aged RoB was dismantled. It was stated that the RoB would beryllium acceptable by December 2025.
However, the enactment makes dilatory progress. As the overbridge implicit the railway enactment is yet to beryllium built, the Corporation could not transportation retired the remaining enactment connected gathering the attack roads. As the commuters were sore implicit the hold successful the project, Tiruchi MP Durai Vaiko visited the operation tract a fewer weeks agone and assured that helium would sermon the contented with the officials. The enactment is yet to summation momentum.
When contacted, a elder authoritative of the Corporation told The Hindu that a large information of the civic body’s enactment had already been completed. Linking of attack roads from the occidental and eastbound arms unsocial was pending. It could beryllium taken up lone aft the completion of the main RoB work. It would beryllium completed wrong 3 months from the completion of it.
Mr. Durai Vaiko said helium was intimately monitoring the advancement of it and held a treatment with the railway officials. He would sojourn the tract again successful a fewer days to instrumentality banal of the concern on with the officials, helium added.
