Work on Thirumudivakkam bridge nearing completion

Work on the bridge throughout the excess channel of the tank at Thirumudivakkam is nearing completion. The water course cuts throughout the Pallavaram-Thiruneermalai-Thirumudivakkam Road.

“It was a pipe culvert earlier and the stretch was flooded in 2015 and 2017 since the culvert could not carry the excess water, which is why we have converted it into a minor bridge with six spans. This will allow a two-way traffic,” mentioned a supply within the Highways Department, which took up the work with an estimate of ₹1.8 crore.

Although the work started in 2020, lockdown delayed the undertaking. “We have already allowed two-way traffic on the side that has been completed. The last span is to be taken up shortly. It is likely to take a month to finish the work,” mentioned an engineer related to the undertaking.

Since the bridge connects the Thirumudivakkam industrial property and is close to the Chennai Outer Ring Road, it witnesses excessive site visitors. Around 20,000 passenger automobile models use the stretch making it crucial for the upgradation from a small pipe culvert.

K. Sundar of Pallavaram mentioned that it was good to see the bridge getting accomplished. He mentioned that lighting within the locality, particularly the roads that related the ORR, wanted to be improved.

The division was ending work on one other minor bridge at Balaji Nagar on the Tambaram-Velachery Road. The price of the work, which might permit extra rainwater to be drained into the Pallikaranai Marsh, was estimated to be ₹2 crore.