Ghat road to Ooty opened

The road to Udhagamandalam was opened to light motor vehicles on Sunday with the construction of the temporary bridge completed. The Silver Bridge between Kallar and Burliyar was washed away on November 14 in a landslip.

Experts from the Army were called in to construct a temporary bridge so that traffic could resume on this stretch. The Project Director of the National Highways Authority of India, D.T. Sridhar, opened this route to traffic around noon on Sunday.

Mr. Sridhar said that only light motor vehicles such as cars, jeeps and small vans would be allowed. Bigger vehicles with heavy loads and also heavy vehicles such as trucks would not be allowed now, he said.

Source: The Hindu