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Bridge work across the Coleroon begins

S. Ganesan

Two more to come up across Cauvery and Upparu

EASY LINK: A pile being erected for the new bridge coming up in Tiruchi. — Photo: R. Ashok

TIRUCHI: Construction has begun on a new bridge across the Coleroon river for the four-lane Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway.

Two more major bridges, across the river Cauvery and the Upparu, will come up as part of the project on the Tiruchi-Padalur section of the highway.

The bridges form a major component of the project on this section, which runs 38.5 kilometres between Padalur and Mannarpuram in Tiruchi.

All the existing bridges on this section are to be strengthened to accommodate two-lane traffic on one direction and the new ones will take the traffic in the opposite direction.

Project completion

The Indu Navayuga Infrastructure Projects Private Limited, the contractor for this section of the National Highways Authority of India project, had targeted to complete the work within 24 months against the project schedule of 30 months commencing November 2006, company officials said.

The new 900-metre-long bridge across the Coleroon river, with 27 spans, is coming up adjacent to the existing bridge on the Tiruchi-Chennai Bypass Road on the outskirts of the city.

The 600-metre-long new bridge across the Cauvery will have 15 spans and the piles for the structure will be erected before the release of water for irrigation from the Mettur reservoir on June 12.

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