Prayagraj: Following the closure of Phaphamau bridge for restore works, commuters taking the route between Teliyarganj and Shantipuram on Prayagraj-Lucknow freeway have been faciing hardship every day. A lot of them have additionally resorted to social media platform to share their experiences.
Demanding district authorities to finish the restore works on the metropolis’s busiest Phaphamau bridge on the earliest, commuters alleged that the unlevelled pontoon bridge being constructed on river Ganga for transportation of sunshine autos like automobiles and SUVs has made their journey depressing.
Although district visitors police authorities have deployed ample power to control visitors on each Phaphamau bridge and pontoon bridge for clean movement of visitors of two wheelers and 4 wheelers respectively, unlevelled pontoon bridge has added to the woes of auto house owners who proceed to spend additional bucks to take care of their autos.
Sarcastically, many authorities employees like academics and well being employees who journey every day from thecity to trans Ganga pockets like Hathigawon, Kaurihar, Holagarh, Soraon and Mauaima to carry out their duties, have employed taxi companies as an alternative of utilizing their very own autos as they weren't snug to drive on pontoon bridge.
“I, together with my colleagues have pooled a taxi automotive until the restore work of Phaphamau bridge is accomplished as I used to be discovering it tough to drive my very own automotive from civil traces to Kaurihar,” mentioned Garima, principal of a main college. “Our personal autos had developed snag a number of occasions and even posed dent whereas driving on the unlevelled pontoon bridge” she added.
Visitors police authorities, in the meantime, admitted that commuters are undoubtedly dealing with robust state of affairs whereas travelling between Teliyarganj and Shantipuram and so they have consulted the difficulty with PWD officers involved in the identical regard.
Although PWD officers claimed to conduct correct levelling of pontoon bridge every day however the quantity of visitors and excessive water present of Ganga river pose issue within the activity. A JCB machine was additionally deployed close to the pontoon bridge to take care of levelling work however there was not sufficient to make the route simpler for the commuters.
“I've shared many movies of unlevelled pontoon bridge on my social media account as travelling has change into a horrible on this route. Authorities should take corrective measures to get the restore work carried out on the earliest on Phaphamau bridge,” mentioned Anupam, one other commuter.
One other commuter, Sudha asserted, driving has change into subsequent to inconceivable on this stretch. She added other than unlevelled situation of pontoon bridge, driving on Bela Kachar route has additionally change into tough.
Nearly all of autos plying on the pontoon bridge for the previous 4 weeks develop snags repeatedly.
A senior visitors official advised TOI, “We hope that motion of autos could be began on Phaphamau bridge from subsequent month because the authorities involved for the restore work haven't despatched any letter relating to extension of diversion of visitors until now.” The bridge was closed for the heavy and lightweight medium autos from April 1 to 30.