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NEW PALAR BRIDGE INAUGURATION TODAY

Posted on: 10/May/2010 1:25:56 AM

The long pending Palar bridge will now inaugurated by Durai Murugan Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons on Friday. It will be held under the presidentship of the Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Vellakovil Swaminathan at Virudhambut on the northern side of the bridge at 5 p.m. The bridge has been constructed by the National Highways and the State Highways Department, across the Palar in Vellore, at a cost of Rs.16.01 crore.

S.Jagathrakshakan, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, would be the chief guest at the function.

The inauguration is being eagerly awaited by road-users of Vellore and Katpadi – the two places that the bridge connects – in view of the narrowness of the existing 35-year-old Polur Subramanian Bridge. Moving of traffic at a snail`s pace was not uncommon on the existing bridge whenever a vehicle got repaired in the middle of the structure or when a bullock cart passed through the bridge.

The new bridge has been constructed in place of the Old Palar Bridge, which crumbled about 17 years ago. With the inauguration of the new bridge, traffic on the Polur Subramanian Bridge as well as the New Palar Bridge (formerly known as Old Katpadi Road) would be made one-way.

New traffic rules regarding the entry into the two bridges and the route to be taken by the different vehicles would be announced by Collector C. Rajendran at a meeting of the District Traffic Advisory Committee to be chaired by him at the Collectorate here at 10.30 a.m. on Friday.

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