THANE: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has closed access into this 150-year-old Kalwa bridge within Thane creek out of Wednesday after qualified help from the group of engineers in IIT Bombay. The engineers also had announced the bridge had been dangerous for usage as soon as they ran a firmness audit in August, after the Mahad bridge meltdown. A gathering was done by older traffic and civic officials not too long ago.

After that the choice to prevent accessibility to autos and pedestrians within the arrangement was obtained, stated the state by the general public works section of their TMC. Grill barricades are built in the endings of this bridge to avoid the entrance of pedestrians and cyclists, those that were using the exact arrangement prior to now. Officers stated the bridge had diminished through the last few years and suffered acute damages soon after having a barge experienced rammed to it a couple of short years back.

hefty autos weren't permitted to ply to the bridge. The civic government then desired to inspect the equilibrium of this bridge, notably soon after the Mahad bridge meltdown in August, by which more than 20 folks are missing their lifestyles. The not exactly 300m lengthy bridge, which joins Thane along with Kalwa across the older Mumbai-Pune street, has been assembled throughout the late 1800s. This bridge includes ten stone columns and arches and can be 7-m vast. The bridge was under their country PWD however has been handed on into this business in 2008. This absolutely was the sole connection in between Thane along with the home sooner, until the TMC assembled another bridge two years past. "We've closed access into this bridge to transport out repairs to this arrangement. No atomic audit has been running as the TMC took ownership of this bridge," stated.

Before, after the collapse of this Mahad bridge on Savitri lake on Bombay-Goa street, Thane's notify Citizens Forum wrote into the police to discontinue tripping movement to the bridge in order to prevent related tragedies.


Just two-wheelers and auto-rickshaws were let. Now, however, just bikes and pedestrians may put it to use," stated a senior officer by Thane site visitors authorities. Early in the day, after the collapse of this Mahad bridge on Savitri lake on Bombay-Goa street, Thane's notify Citizens Forum wrote into the police to discontinue tripping movement in the bridge in order to prevent related tragedies. The bridge, and it really is a linking link among Thane, Kalwa, Navi Mumbai and also Dombivli, has captured everyone's awareness immediately after the Mahad bridge collapse August two nighttime time. "living with the bridge has been long above plus also a fresh bridge adjacent it has been commissioned twenty decades back. Presently a 3rd bridge is currently being proposed to decongest traffic inside the region," explained Dayanand Nene, president of notify Citizens Forum. Gene composed to Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC),'' Public Works Department (PWD) along with also other governments to discontinue tripping move on Kalwa bridge. Even the 350mtr-long bridge includes ten columns and ten arches. The discussion asserts ten decades ago of those columns was ruined by means of a barge journey at the creek under and because afterwards, the PWD ceased movements of thick and also medium-range motor vehicles onto the bridge. perhaps the arrangement is healthy is not understood and if a definite audit of this had been achieved or not it's likewise not understood, he explained.

Thus in light of this Mahad the discussion needed to instantly quit motion of any or all or any traffic to the bridge in order to prevent any injury We require the bridge could possibly be secured along with also at top just jet motion be enabled, which even following an exercise poll has been made and done people.