Chingrighata: On Thursday, the Kolkata
Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) confirmed that the crack, which was
found on a side-wall of Chingrighata Flyover at Salt Lake area in the city, was
not a big damage and the bridge could not collapse due to the crack.
A
senior engineer of KMDA said, “We have checked the entire structure of
Chingrighata Flyover today. The crack has been created on a side guard-wall
under the railing. It’s very common and quite natural too. The crack was
created, might be due to weather-change, on the outside plaster on an expansion
joint between two girders, not on the main structure of the flyover.” “A very
minimum repairing is required there. Don't be worried. There no possibility of
Chingrighata Flyover’s collapse,” he further said. Meanwhile, for checking up,
traffic movement had been closed on the flyover for hours. Later, police lifted
of the restrictions and traffic is normal on Chingrighata Flyover now.
The panic
started on Thursday afternoon when the local people noticed a crack on the
Chingrighata flyover and panic gripped the commuters and local people.
The
incident spread among the pedestrians as they were reminded of the Vivekananda
flyover mishap which took place on March 31, 2016 which claimed 26 lives. Tension
spread among the pedestrians. The city is still unable to cope with the horror
of Vivekananda flyover collapse which highlighted the corruption and utter
negligence costing several lives. A busy flyover in Ultadanga collapsed at
midnight in 2013, which injured a track driver.
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