Kolkata Roads & Flyovers

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by Suncity

An interesting video of travel from New Market to Circular Road through some of the relatively economically depressed areas of central area.

nice and good quality video. Looks like our ubiquitous cycle rickshaws have taken on some innovative designs

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by G.Ag

Disagree. They are slow.

EM Bypass, and road from Parama Island to traffic signal after Merc showroom is very wide. They should have completed that stretch by now.

Don't think they can complete this before time.

According to KMDA website the project is only 13% complete as of Jan 2011, so it is going slowly. Today morning I saw parts of the pavement on the left from topsia to bridhge 4 being taken off...possibly an indication that work will start on that stretch soon. The pillars of the exit ramp towards Garia (opposite to Science city lake, in front of milan mela) are coming up fast.

[shuvro]

Originally Posted by arijeetb

nice and good quality video. Looks like our ubiquitous cycle rickshaws have taken on some innovative designs

Nice video indeed. Great hands - no shake at all, or, as it looks - the road quality is pretty good, at least for the first half of the video. If only,

a) They stopped parking vehicles on the road side (like a double yellow line) with fines !!!! (Need parking lots aplenty)

b) People used footpaths where available

Was impressed with the STOP sign and the Zebra crossing - except that nobody seemed to obey.

There is hope yet!!

[flyinfishjoe]

Originally Posted by Suncity

An interesting video of travel from New Market to Circular Road through some of the relatively economically depressed areas of central area.

This video makes me want to visit Calcutta. The architecture and street life seem very interesting to me. But there seems to be a lot of irresponsible parking (this is an India-wide problem though).

[Suncity]

Rajarhat Highway - including new flyover; going towards Nabadiganta; You get a glimpse of u/c Salarpuria Novotel at the beginning of the video and Technopolis towards the end.



NH2
I think some buses and trucks are afraid of falling off the road - that's why they drive in the centre. And then there are people who will cross over the median. The guy really picks up speed at one point.

From Kolkata



To Kolkata



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Some taxi rides

[G.Ag]

Originally Posted by dibdigc

I think construction is going on at a pretty good speed....

And I think the reason why work has not yet started beyond topsia is that they are still not sure if they can complete the whole project as planned ( remember the news regarding the problem the project may face beyond Bridge No. 4 ???)
May be they are not taking the risk of constructing till that bridge and then realizing that it wont be possible to dismantle the older bridge....
Also, keep one thing in mind, that stretch over the railway line has to be constructed by the railways themselves, soo BE READY for delays..

New bridge to be constructed by railways? Sure about that?

[G.Ag]

Originally Posted by arijeetb

According to KMDA website the project is only 13% complete as of Jan 2011, so it is going slowly. Today morning I saw parts of the pavement on the left from topsia to bridhge 4 being taken off...possibly an indication that work will start on that stretch soon. The pillars of the exit ramp towards Garia (opposite to Science city lake, in front of milan mela) are coming up fast.

Apparently.

Only one pillar near ITC Service Road seems to have been completed.

[dibdigc]

Originally Posted by G.Ag

New bridge to be constructed by railways? Sure about that?

http://www.telegraphindia.com/109112...y_11794419.jsp
The hand that crafted Mumbai’s spectacular Bandra-Worli Sea Link will build Calcutta’s longest flyover, starting December, linking the Science City island on the EM Bypass to Park Circus with two aerial rotaries 4.3km apart.

The giant project has been brought out of cold storage after four years — the delay having pushed up the estimated cost from Rs 291 crore to Rs 317.93 crore — as if to underline a beleaguered government’s commitment to fast-track growth in the run-up to Poll 2011.

“It will take two years for the project to be completed. Once the flyover is done, EM Bypass to Park Circus will be a fast-track corridor,” Vivek Bharadwaj, the CEO of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) told Metro.

The urban development department zeroed in on Hindustan Construction Company from six bidders to implement the project, its eight-lane, cable-stayed sea bridge in Mumbai having been acclaimed as a modern engineering marvel.

The decks were cleared for the revival of what was threatening to end up as another dud project of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government when the Union urban development ministry agreed to pay 35 per cent of the original project cost.

“The state government will bear the remaining expenses considering the long-term benefits. This 4.3km flyover will bear most of the traffic load from the eastern fringes to the city,” said an official of the urban development department.

The plan says there will be two tiers at the Parama intersection, off Science City, to feed and shoulder the burden of traffic headed towards Ultadanga and Garia. One arm of the flyover will run over Congress Exhibition Road and Syed Amir Ali Avenue. A ‘D’ above the Park Circus rotary will link it to the flyover.

“Test piling will start in mid-December to identify how much load a single pier of the flyover can bear. Once this is done, with soil testing, boring operations will begin. Each of the piers will run 30-32 metres deep,” said Debdas Bhattacharya, the director-general (operations) of the CMDA.

The entire stretch will be a four-lane corridor with a divider down the middle. The divider will have a central median duct to carry cables and other wires from end to end.

A 30-metre patch below the No. 4 bridge will be constructed by the railways after the old bridge is dismantled.

The bad news is that the road to smoother traffic along one of the city’s chaos corridors would be a long, bumpy one for the commuter because of construction bottlenecks at critical junctions. The construction of a ramp on the AJC Bose Road flyover has already thrown traffic haywire in the heart of the city.

“There will be diversions at both the Parama and Park Circus junctions, though we cannot be more specific yet,” said a senior traffic police officer, adding that traffic trouble was “inevitable”.

The police have asked the CMDA to ensure that Hindustan Construction Company specifies the bottleneck zones clearly in its construction plan before commencing work. How to implement the project with minimal traffic disruptions will be worked out on December 20 when police officers meet representatives of the company and the urban development department.

But then, as the 3km AJC Bose Road flyover had kept reminding us while it was coming up, today’s pain is meant to be tomorrow’s gain.

[studdmanster]

Pillar no. - P/01

[Suncity]

Announcements for pedestrians?

[G.Ag]

Originally Posted by dibdigc

http://www.telegraphindia.com/109112...y_11794419.jsp
The hand that crafted Mumbai’s spectacular Bandra-Worli Sea Link will build Calcutta’s longest flyover, starting December, linking the Science City island on the EM Bypass to Park Circus with two aerial rotaries 4.3km apart.

The giant project has been brought out of cold storage after four years — the delay having pushed up the estimated cost from Rs 291 crore to Rs 317.93 crore — as if to underline a beleaguered government’s commitment to fast-track growth in the run-up to Poll 2011.

“It will take two years for the project to be completed. Once the flyover is done, EM Bypass to Park Circus will be a fast-track corridor,” Vivek Bharadwaj, the CEO of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) told Metro.

The urban development department zeroed in on Hindustan Construction Company from six bidders to implement the project, its eight-lane, cable-stayed sea bridge in Mumbai having been acclaimed as a modern engineering marvel.

The decks were cleared for the revival of what was threatening to end up as another dud project of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government when the Union urban development ministry agreed to pay 35 per cent of the original project cost.

“The state government will bear the remaining expenses considering the long-term benefits. This 4.3km flyover will bear most of the traffic load from the eastern fringes to the city,” said an official of the urban development department.

The plan says there will be two tiers at the Parama intersection, off Science City, to feed and shoulder the burden of traffic headed towards Ultadanga and Garia. One arm of the flyover will run over Congress Exhibition Road and Syed Amir Ali Avenue. A ‘D’ above the Park Circus rotary will link it to the flyover.

“Test piling will start in mid-December to identify how much load a single pier of the flyover can bear. Once this is done, with soil testing, boring operations will begin. Each of the piers will run 30-32 metres deep,” said Debdas Bhattacharya, the director-general (operations) of the CMDA.

The entire stretch will be a four-lane corridor with a divider down the middle. The divider will have a central median duct to carry cables and other wires from end to end.

A 30-metre patch below the No. 4 bridge will be constructed by the railways after the old bridge is dismantled.

The bad news is that the road to smoother traffic along one of the city’s chaos corridors would be a long, bumpy one for the commuter because of construction bottlenecks at critical junctions. The construction of a ramp on the AJC Bose Road flyover has already thrown traffic haywire in the heart of the city.

“There will be diversions at both the Parama and Park Circus junctions, though we cannot be more specific yet,” said a senior traffic police officer, adding that traffic trouble was “inevitable”.

The police have asked the CMDA to ensure that Hindustan Construction Company specifies the bottleneck zones clearly in its construction plan before commencing work. How to implement the project with minimal traffic disruptions will be worked out on December 20 when police officers meet representatives of the company and the urban development department.

But then, as the 3km AJC Bose Road flyover had kept reminding us while it was coming up, today’s pain is meant to be tomorrow’s gain.

Seems the existing bridge would be replaced with a two tier bridge.

[studdmanster]

Originally Posted by Suncity

Announcements for pedestrians?

arey eta jug dhore cholche...(happening for ages)...nothing new, they even keep announcing the same thing even when the pedestrian light is green!!!...

[Suncity]

[Suncity]

The Bypass Park Circus flyover u/c

[studdmanster]

approach road to a f/o of Vidyasagar setu

[studdmanster]

On an approach f/o of Vidyasagar setu

[studdmanster]

[studdmanster]

look below

[studdmanster]

Fort William Skyline

[studdmanster]

Approaching Vidyasagar Setu