Friday, 3 June 2016

Crack In Another Flyover In Chingrighata Creates Panic

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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