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Marking a milestone, the Highways Department placed the archetypal platform slab implicit the 3.2 km-long under-construction flyover connected Anna Salai astatine Saidapet that is being built implicit the Metrorail tunnel.
This is the archetypal of the 132 spans that will form the flyover to run from Saidapet to Teynampet allowing motorists to transverse 7 junctions without having to halt for the signal. The enactment began on Monday night and ended by 7 a.m. “We thought it would instrumentality much time. But we finished the enactment connected clip without disrupting postulation flow. We had arranged for 2 factual pouring machines successful lawsuit 1 fails.”
The 30-metre-long, 16.6-metre-wide, 25 cm thick deck slab volition person a two-lane divided carriageway connected top. A full of 15 tonnes of alloy reinforcement and 352 tonnes of factual signifier the composite girder, where alloy and cement factual articulation to supply the champion of their qualities.
Official sources said that they planned to laic 1 platform slab each different day. “We person already started receiving the pre-cast structures from assorted places. The labourers can enactment lone betwixt 12 midnight to 5 a.m. owed to traffic. We have to take into information information issues, question of dense machinery, quality and also ensure enactment is completed connected time,” explained an authoritative source.
Around 98% of the enactment to laic foundations person been completed and the steel barricades person been moved for a magnitude of 1.5 km. “With this, we person been capable to summation the available roadworthy width to 10 metres from the earlier seven metres.”
