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Madiwala Ayyappa Temple underpass opened
Written By Bheema.Upadhyaya - 2 August, 2010
Bangalore Infrastructure Underpass Citizen Reports Transportation Madiwala
I am happy to see the Madiwala Ayyappa Temple underpass is opened for public from today 02-Aug-2010. I had indicated the start date in my Prajabytes here http://praja.in/en/statuses/259/ it was on 24-May-2010. Excellent, its almost complete in period of 9 weeks. I have not seen the completed work. But if I get a chance I will get pictures and post here.
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silkboard - 3 August, 2010 - 04:52
Good call Bheema. Yet another magic box project? Pictures anyone? 9 weeks only, seems like this was done on time.
its state if art for us..nevertheless
srinidhi - 3 August, 2010 - 11:46
Clover leaf jn is an 'in' thing for us...though its an 'out' thing elsewhere..
So considering 20-30 years old tech being used..its still latest for us!
Anyways, hope the tech gives some meaning to the MUP projects and dont make them a makeshift solution..
idontspam - 5 August, 2010 - 13:10
it stressed on the experience of the contractor with the technology being important- to get it right.
That should nail it against the magic box company.
Constructed using Soil Nailing technology
sanjayv - 3 August, 2010 - 10:44
Apparently, this underpass uses something called soil nailing. I saw this in the Hindu here. The Hindu article calls this a state of the art technology. However, the Wikipedia article on soil nailing (here) dates it to 1972. The Japanese std on soil nailing was published in 1987 and the FHA (US) published stds in 1996 and 2003. Does not sound like that much of a state of the art as advertized.
sanjayv - 5 August, 2010 - 04:14
I was on (in?) this underpass yesterday. It is only nominally complete. Lot of finishing work to happen and the approach roads to the underpass are a mess. Some of the "nails" appear to be sticking out from the concrete and needs to be trimmed/finished.
It also looks like the approach roads are going to be concretized. I saw that the road from Madiwala check post to underpass is being made of Concrete. The alignment of the underpass also somehow felt wrong (w.r.t road), but that whole area is a mess right now and I could be wrong.
The other interesting thing from a quick reading of the FHA document on soil nailing is that it stressed on the experience of the contractor with the technology being important- to get it right.
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