Garden City Skyway Bridge – KR Puram, Bangalore

Garden City Skyway Bridge – KR Puram, Bangalore
(Image copyrighted to Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan. All rights reserved.)

About the location (from here):
The cable-stayed bridge over the railway tracks at Krishnarajapuram is one of the landmarks in Bangalore. The Garden City Skyway Bridge, as it has been named, passes over five railway tracks. At the time of construction, the cables themselves, the pylons supporting them, and the way the material was transported to the site are considered unique in engineering and logistics. The technology of holding such structures with strong cables came from a design developed by Swiss engineers 50 years ago. Thousands of metres of wire measuring 12 mm in diameter were imported from Kobe, Japan, by Usha Martin Co. of Ranchi.

The 1,830-metre bridge has four lanes for traffic. The cables take the entire load of vehicles passing on the bridge — up to 300 tonnes at a time — and will pass on the load pressure to the pylons which in turn will pass it to the ground. The cable inclination with the towers varies from 23.7 degrees to 74 degrees. The longest cable is 113 meters. The bridge was a joint venture of the Union Ministry of Surface Transport, Southern Railways, and the State Government. The Railways have shared the bulk of the total cost of Rs. 47 crore. Even as the bridge was under construction, city planners and engineers from places such as Patna, Nainital, and Ahmedabad came here to study it and examine if the technology could be replicated.

Movies shot at this location:
PogaadhE PogaadhE from Deepavali
Thuli Thuli Mazhaiyai from Paiyya

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