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The span was closed for postulation from July 15, 2021, portion the PWD lifted the sunken instauration and the girder by July 29 to unfastened the span for postulation from July 30 that year. With the section constructing a caller and wider span adjacent to the aged 1 arsenic portion of four-laning the Airport Road, the aged 1 was closed successful April 2023 for a implicit overhaul.
Though it was opened for postulation a fewer months later, the span was permanently closed for postulation successful June 2024. Traffic betwixt the City and the Airport and Bajpe/Kateel has been moving connected the caller span since then.
The old Maravoor Bridge crossed Phalguni (Gurupura) River connected Airport Road was permanently closed for postulation from July 29, 2024 and postulation betwixt the City and Airport/ Bajpe/ Kateel has been moving connected the adjacent new span since past connected Wednesday, February 4, successful Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH
One and a fractional years aft the span was closed for traffic, the PWD has said that restoration and overhaul of the aged span that was constructed successful 1969 arsenic a portion of Mangalru-Athrady State Highway 67 is adjacent impossible. Pier foundations arsenic good arsenic each the piers of the span person go weak, rendering it unusable. The granite masonry span with RCC piers has 9 spans of 21-metre magnitude with the full magnitude of the span being astir 200 metres. It had a 7.5 m wide carriageway.
₹40 crore proposal
Realising that restoration of the aged span was impossible, the Mangaluru Division of PWD has sent a connection to the authorities to dismantle the aged operation and physique a caller one. The estimated outgo is astir ₹40 crore, which includes dismantling the aged operation and shifting of the debris, an technologist told The Hindu.
Public Works Minister Satish Jarkholi and Dakshina Kannada territory in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao person promised to get the connection approved astatine the earliest, the technologist said, adding that the enactment mightiness commencement aft the monsoon.
The caller span would travel up astatine the aforesaid determination arsenic the aged bridge. It would beryllium akin to the newly-built bridge, which is astir 200 metre successful magnitude and 12 metre successful width.
