Ludhiana: Although the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (Glada) has started construction work of approach roads to the railway bridge over .
The government has given a two-month window to the Metro authorities to build the pillar, without which the viaduct of the Metro corridor could not be made to turn towards Salt Lake from the Bypass at the Chingrighata intersection
Cops on Thursday started traffic trials at Chingrighata ahead of handing over the site to facilitate construction of another Metro pillar next to the crossing.
Commuters will be able to zip all the way from Howrah Maidan to the middle of EM Bypass, via the Hooghly, for just Rs 50. This is the crux of the integrated fare structure proposed by Metro Railway for the truncated East-West Metro, which has an interface with the North-South line at Esplanade in central Kolkata.