Road flyover near CSB Junction: BMRCL will pour concrete continuously for 50 hours

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited is working to clear the Central Silk Board (CSB) intersection of all traffic and make it totally signal-free (BMRCL). It will undertake the first-ever job of laying a slab and continuously pouring concrete over it for fifty hours in order to construct the ramp for a road flyover at CSB Junction. Work on the 2,520 cubic meters of concrete that make up the solid slab will start on Thursday.

“This will be the first time something of this nature is being undertaken,” N Sadashiva, the deputy chief engineer for the BMRCL’s outer ring road (ORR) line, told TNIE. 10,100 personnel have been working on ramp-related projects over the last two months. Due to the busy intersection, we had to coordinate with the traffic police.

BMRCL has awarded a contract to AFCONS Infrastructure Limited for the work.

The Yellow Line (RV Road to Bommasandra) and BMRCL’s Phase-2A line, which runs from CSB to KR Pura station (Outer Ring Road Line), are connected at CSB junction. At CSB Junction, a road flyover as well as five loops and ramps totaling three kilometers in length have been built to reduce traffic congestion.

For the Reach-5 line (Ragigudda to CSB Junction), the first level of the road flyover has already been built, and by May of this year, ramps A, B, and C will be put into service. December is when ramps D and E will be placed into service, according to the Deputy Chief Engineer.

Without going into specifics, Sadashiva said that there are a lot of moving parts. The ramp, which will be 124 meters long and 15.1 meters wide, will have 2,520 cubic meters of solid slab installed on it. “It would be 1.8 meters deep. The Deputy CE said, “There are 245 tons of steel, 225 high tensile steel strands, and 11,074 high density polyethylene pipes being utilized.