MANGALURU: Expectations are rife of the railway under bridge (RuB) at Padil being opened to traffic at the earliest. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Southern Railway that seemed in no apparent hurry to commission the RuB constructed on carriageway towards the city on Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway 75 on the city outskirts are now looking to complete the remaining work to facilitate its commissioning.
Incidentally, the RuB on the carriageway towards Bengaluru was commissioned in December 2017 and the precast concrete box for the RuB towards Mangaluru was in place in January 2019. Officials in construction wing of Southern Railway had cited non-removal of trees and shifting of electrical installations as reason for not commissioning the RuB. Initially, the plan was to commission this second RuB towards Mangaluru by January.
Shishu Mohan, project director, NHAI project implementation unit, Mangaluru told TOI that the commission of the second RuB towards Mangaluru will help ease traffic bottleneck at Mangaluru. The construction wing of Southern Railway has almost completed their work and NHAI will need around 15-days to lay bituminous concrete to a length of 1.10-km to connect the two ends of the road via the new RuB towards Mangaluru side, he said.
Barricades have been fixed on either end of new RuB, dimensions of which has been fixed as per Indian Road Congress standards to prevent oversized vehicles from using the same. Painting work of the RuB too has been completed. Incidentally, this ‘new’ RuB was earlier the only RuB that existed on Bengaluru-Mangaluru NH at Padil. The second RuB was constructed on the road leading towards Bengaluru as part of the four-laning project.
The two RuBs are part of Port Connectivity four-laning project on NH 75 between B C Road and Nanthoor in the City that started in 2003. The move by NHAI to collect toll for this 36-odd-km stretch of four-lane road – at Brahmarakootlu and Surathkal too has irked road users – as its maintenance is not of desired standards. The delay in addressing above bottlenecks has only given users a chance to vent their ire against NHAI for their perceived apathy.
Incidentally, the RuB on the carriageway towards Bengaluru was commissioned in December 2017 and the precast concrete box for the RuB towards Mangaluru was in place in January 2019. Officials in construction wing of Southern Railway had cited non-removal of trees and shifting of electrical installations as reason for not commissioning the RuB. Initially, the plan was to commission this second RuB towards Mangaluru by January.
Shishu Mohan, project director, NHAI project implementation unit, Mangaluru told TOI that the commission of the second RuB towards Mangaluru will help ease traffic bottleneck at Mangaluru. The construction wing of Southern Railway has almost completed their work and NHAI will need around 15-days to lay bituminous concrete to a length of 1.10-km to connect the two ends of the road via the new RuB towards Mangaluru side, he said.
Barricades have been fixed on either end of new RuB, dimensions of which has been fixed as per Indian Road Congress standards to prevent oversized vehicles from using the same. Painting work of the RuB too has been completed. Incidentally, this ‘new’ RuB was earlier the only RuB that existed on Bengaluru-Mangaluru NH at Padil. The second RuB was constructed on the road leading towards Bengaluru as part of the four-laning project.
The two RuBs are part of Port Connectivity four-laning project on NH 75 between B C Road and Nanthoor in the City that started in 2003. The move by NHAI to collect toll for this 36-odd-km stretch of four-lane road – at Brahmarakootlu and Surathkal too has irked road users – as its maintenance is not of desired standards. The delay in addressing above bottlenecks has only given users a chance to vent their ire against NHAI for their perceived apathy.
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