Yet to get CR nod,Thane-Kalwa road under bridge stuck again

Four months after the Commissioner of Railway Safety approved the construction of an additional road under bridge intersecting the Central Railway lines between Thane and Kalwa,the project is stuck as the Operational Department of Central Railways is yet to give a go-ahead to the construction.

Four months after the Commissioner of Railway Safety approved the construction of an additional road under bridge intersecting the Central Railway lines between Thane and Kalwa,the project is stuck as the Operational Department of Central Railways is yet to give a go-ahead to the construction.

The Thane Municipal Corporation began construction of the bridge in March 2003. As per initial designs,a single 60-tonne pre-stressed concrete slab was to be laid over two hollow concrete boxes. The laying of the concrete slab would have required mega blocks and CR officials recommended design changes.

The design was changed and it was decided that the single concrete slab would be divided into segments and placed over railway tracks.

In 2008,before the concrete slab segments were cast,CR officials decided to do away with the slab altogether and proposed a hollow concrete box to be pushed beneath railway embankments.

It took two years for the CR to get all necessary approvals.

The railways now say that the TMC should adopt a method that expedites work as the construction work will lead to traffic pile-ups.

Vidhyadhar Malegaonkar,chief public relations officer,Central Railway,said,The TMC should adopt a technical method to expedite the work. The railway cannot allow extended work as it will hit our punctuality.

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The existing RUB is merely 24 feet wide and 12 foot high.

It enables only single lane movement in either directions that often leads to traffic pile-ups during peak hours.

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