Hindon To Get A Third Bridge, Traffic Woes May Ease
A third bridge is coming up over the river Hindon. The new bridge, to be built at a cost of Rs 25 crore, is expected to put the pressure off the existing bridges which have become old.
The GDA will float the tender for the bridge sometime in July. "From the day one, we were stuck on the huge cost of construction and it became hard to carry forward this project without getting the green signal from the state administration. Now the cost has been reduced from Rs 29 crore to Rs 25 crore in fresh revision," said Anil Garg chief engineer GDA.
Garg said construction would start very soon. Seeing the chaotic condition of the Hindon bridge, it becomes pertinent to construct a third one parallel to the existing bridge which always remains under tremendous traffic pressure.
Necessity of third bridge
The Ghaziabad Development Authority organised several rounds of talks with the zonal commissioner who approved the project and allowed GDA to float a fresh tender for this project. This time, private contractors could take part along the UP Bridge Corporation in this bid process.
A recent survey found that the existing Hindon bridge is weakening due to heavy traffic load and a parallel one is essentially required. The situation turned traumatic on Hindon river after road widening over New Bus Depot to Mohan Nagar and patching work on parallel road to Hindon Cut Canal.
Various social groups and RWAs of Ghaziabad have also been demanding a third bridge. TR Pandey, general secretary of Trans-Hindon Federation of RWA says, "This old Hindon Bridge is no longer fit to hold the weight of traffic."
The decision to build the new bridge was taken in April after a meeting between GDA-VC and Zonal Commissioner Shravan Kumar. It was taken up after a report submitted by the chief engineer of GDA who had clearly mentioned in his report that this bridge is not enough to bear the rising traffic pressure.
"The Hindon Bridge was constructed in 1957. Any bridge is constructed keeping in mind a 40-year span. For the Hindon Bridge that time was over in 1997. In a random survey we saw that beams were exposed. There was also rusting in the joints. We have proposed another bridge of 10.5 m width since the present bridge is very narrow," GDA chief engineer Anil Garg.
Source: Jagran City Plus
The GDA will float the tender for the bridge sometime in July. "From the day one, we were stuck on the huge cost of construction and it became hard to carry forward this project without getting the green signal from the state administration. Now the cost has been reduced from Rs 29 crore to Rs 25 crore in fresh revision," said Anil Garg chief engineer GDA.
Garg said construction would start very soon. Seeing the chaotic condition of the Hindon bridge, it becomes pertinent to construct a third one parallel to the existing bridge which always remains under tremendous traffic pressure.
Necessity of third bridge
The Ghaziabad Development Authority organised several rounds of talks with the zonal commissioner who approved the project and allowed GDA to float a fresh tender for this project. This time, private contractors could take part along the UP Bridge Corporation in this bid process.
A recent survey found that the existing Hindon bridge is weakening due to heavy traffic load and a parallel one is essentially required. The situation turned traumatic on Hindon river after road widening over New Bus Depot to Mohan Nagar and patching work on parallel road to Hindon Cut Canal.
Various social groups and RWAs of Ghaziabad have also been demanding a third bridge. TR Pandey, general secretary of Trans-Hindon Federation of RWA says, "This old Hindon Bridge is no longer fit to hold the weight of traffic."
The decision to build the new bridge was taken in April after a meeting between GDA-VC and Zonal Commissioner Shravan Kumar. It was taken up after a report submitted by the chief engineer of GDA who had clearly mentioned in his report that this bridge is not enough to bear the rising traffic pressure.
"The Hindon Bridge was constructed in 1957. Any bridge is constructed keeping in mind a 40-year span. For the Hindon Bridge that time was over in 1997. In a random survey we saw that beams were exposed. There was also rusting in the joints. We have proposed another bridge of 10.5 m width since the present bridge is very narrow," GDA chief engineer Anil Garg.
Source: Jagran City Plus