AHMEDABAD: The project to build the city’s first circular foot overbridge with escalators was to be completed in six months, but work is on for four years. Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority ,oda) is the executive agency.
with increasing traffic volume SP Ring Road To the east of the city, overbridges were planned around the elevated corridor of the metro section. Vastral in January 2019. The plan includes four escalators and two elevators.
Tender worth Rs 14.60 crore was floated and the contract was awarded to a private construction firm with a revised estimate of Rs 17.93 crore. The deadline was September 2019.
An AUDA official said, “An ONGC gas line and other utility lines passed under the site. A new design was prepared.” “It took a year to complete the exercise. Then in 2020, the corona pandemic broke out.”
Meanwhile, the construction firm ditched the project. AUDA sources said the authority did not penalize the firm and another contractor stepped in. The project is likely to take another year.
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