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Tiruchi Corporation is acceptable to resume operation of the motorable span crossed the Uyyakondan canal, enactment connected which was suspended earlier owed to changes successful design.
In 2023, the civic assemblage projected the operation of pedestrian and motorable bridges crossed the Uyyakondan canal to amended connectivity and amended utilisation of disposable unfastened spaces. Accordingly, ₹1.25 crore was sanctioned from the Corporation’s General Funds for 2024–25 for a motorable span connecting Raja Colony with Bharathi Nagar adjacent the Corporation park. The span was planned to facilitate the question of pedestrians, two-wheelers, and autorickshaws.
After a prolonged delay, enactment connected the span commenced successful May 2025 but was halted a fewer months aboriginal due to the fact that of concerns implicit the archetypal design. Officials said the archetypal program progressive erecting pillars wrong the canal, which could obstruct escaped travel of water. To flooded this problem, the Corporation revised the plan by opting for retaining walls alternatively of pillars.
Subsequently, a feasibility survey and ungraded tests were conducted for the revised design, which had been approved by the authorities. However, the outgo accrued to astir ₹1.85 crore. As the contractor initially entrusted with the enactment withdrew from the project, the Corporation is preparing to interval a caller tender.
Officials said the enactment was expected to statesman earlier February 15 and is apt to beryllium completed wrong a year.
Once completed, the span is expected to decongest postulation adjacent the MGR Roundabout and the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital. Motorists travelling from Vayalur Road would beryllium capable to usage the span to scope the Tiruchi Railway Junction, Central Bus Stand, and surrounding areas much easily.
