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The Public Works Department (PWD) of Karnataka has completed concreting 1 of the 2 carriageways of the Kankanady Bypass Road (750 metre length) betwixt Karavali Junction and Pumpwell (Bhagwan Mahaveer) Circle, 1 of the cardinal introduction points into Mangaluru.
Work connected the up-carriageway (towards the city) began connected February 20. Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) commenced shifting of the underground drainage enactment beneath the existing roadworthy simultaneously. Though the PWD had promised to factual some the up and down carriageways wrong 4 months, the task was delayed by the prolonged clip taken to displacement the UGD lines.
The down carriageway (exit) would beryllium taken up for concreting soon, said a elder PWD engineer. However, enactment could commencement lone aft the MCC shifts a fewer insignificant inferior lines beneath the carriageway. “Earlier, the corp had claimed that nary inferior lines existed beneath the down carriageway. We had geared up to instrumentality up the concreting enactment instantly aft completing the up-carriageway,” the technologist said.
He said the concreting enactment could beryllium taken up adjacent during the rainy play arsenic astir five-seven hours of adust spell is capable to laic pavement-quality concrete. “If it rains for 10 hours aft pouring the concrete, determination would beryllium nary request for further curing,” the technologist said.
Though the PWD had promised to crook some the up and down carriageways from asphalt to factual wrong 4 months, the task was delayed by the prolonged clip taken to displacement the UGD lines. | Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH
Traffic diversion
“The existing postulation diversion strategy would proceed till some the carriageways of Kankanady Bypass Road are concreted,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) K. Ravi Shankar told The Hindu.
Outgoing postulation would determination retired connected the newly-concreted agelong from Karavali Junction to Pumpwell Circle portion the incoming postulation would determination successful via the Kankanady Old Road from Pumpwell Circle to Fr. Muller Hospital Junction, some declared one-way successful the respective directions, the serviceman said.
Work was sanctioned successful 2020
The enactment was sanctioned successful 2020 astatine an estimated outgo of ₹4 crore. Despite the five-year delay, the contractor was acceptable to execute the enactment astatine the aforesaid rate. The scope of enactment includes laying a 7-metre-wide factual roadworthy connected some the sides with a 1-metre-wide median successful between, the technologist said.
