Construction of new bridge near Railway Junction drags on

Construction of the overbridge adjacent the Railway Junction successful the metropolis continues to determination astatine a dilatory gait and is not apt to beryllium completed earlier September.

The task was slated to beryllium completed by April 2025. It was formally inaugurated successful March 2024, up of the Lok Sabha elections, but the existent enactment began lone aft postulation diversions were enforced successful October that year.

The caller span is built arsenic portion of a two-stage task being executed jointly by the Railways and the Highways Department. The archetypal signifier was completed successful 2023 aft overmuch hold successful acquisition and alienation of land. Under the 2nd stage, the constrictive span crossed the railway lines adjacent the Tiruchi Junction was dismantled and a caller 1 is being built.

The span would tally betwixt Aristo roundabout and P&T Colony adjacent Mannarpuram. It would see arms starring towards the railway junction and its rear entranceway astatine Kallukuzhi.

While the Railways is gathering the span supra the engaged Tiruchi-Madurai line, the Highways Department has taken up operation of the approaches astatine a outgo of astir ₹16 crore.

Crucial link

With the span being a captious nexus betwixt the Central Bus Stand, Railway Junction, and Mannarpuram areas, particularly for nationalist transport, residents person been hoping that the operation would beryllium completed astatine the earliest.

Although the Highways Department had begun operation of the attack roads towards the Central Bus Stand side, it has not been capable to instrumentality up enactment connected the Mannarpuram limb moving astir 400 metres successful length.

According to sources successful the Highways Department, enactment connected Mannarpuram broadside is apt to statesman aft March 15 by which clip the Railways is expected to determination the materials required for the precast superstructure of the bow drawstring bridge.

From determination on, the section would necessitate astir six months to implicit the attack road. At present, enactment is nether mode connected gathering the reinforced world (RE) partition for the approaches towards the Aristo Junction, the sources said.