Mamata Banerjee loves flyovers - wants Posta flyover to be ready by February

Kolkata is yet to come out of the problems regarding the Parama flyover and, chief minister Mamata Banetjee, in her eagerness to add another flyover to her feather of achievements, has indicated that the 62-month delayed Burrabazar flyover would be declared open by February 2016. The flyover is hardly 76 percent completed and there are innumerable hurdles that have yet to be resolved.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 18 November 2015.

The chief minister has made the announcement while inaugurating a Jagaddhatri Puja in Posta. Her announcement certainly drew cheers from the crowd but left engineers associated with the Vivekananda Road flyover flummoxed and dumbfounded.
An official of the construction company building the flyover has revealed that there are at least four immediate and major hurdles - one of these is with regard to acquisition of land!! Calcutta Port Trust has not yet granted permission to use a patch of land for the Girish Park-bound ramp.
Other issues that need to be sorted out are - a decision on where the Howrah-bound ramp will land as well as the location of two piers at the Posta crossing. This has not yet been fixed.
Moreover, the work is progressing at a snail pace with five to six hours of construction activity every day ever since the start of the project. This is because of police restrictions which have fixed 11am to 5pm as the time available to work on the flyover.
Consequently, the target date of the chief minister may not be feasible.
The flyover would take off from near the Girish Park-Central Avenue crossing and run above Vivekananda Road and Kali Krishna Tagore Street before branching out in two directions from the Posta crossing. One of the arms would run above Strand Road and approaches Howrah bridge from Posta, the other would be to carry traffic towards Nimtala.
The 2.2-Km flyover has missed eight deadlines since construction started in 2009 and the ninth deadline is scheduled to end this November.
Based on the original timeline, the flyover was to be ready for traffic by August 2010.

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