Goraguntepalya flyover on Tumakuru Road, which had been closed for over 50 days for safety reasons, was finally opened for motorists on Wednesday evening. However, entry will be restricted to light motor vehicles such as bikes, cars and auto-rickshaws. Heavy vehicles including trucks and buses have to continue to use the main lanes under the flyover for the foreseeable future.
The police, on Wednesday evening, had put up signages and barricades and were allowing vehicles only on the Nelamangala side. “We will open the other side to traffic by Wednesday night,” said a police personnel monitoring vehicle movement at the spot.
The decision to allow light motor vehicles was taken by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) after experts from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) who were conducting load testing gave the green signal.
