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Fresh cracks and sinking trigger diversion on Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway
Fresh cracks and sinking trigger diversion on Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway
Fresh cracks detected at km 30.3 of the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway forced a 1.5-km diversion on Saturday, a day after repairs were completed on an adjacent damaged stretch. Engineers decided to reconstruct nearly…
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Fresh cracks detected at km 30.3 of the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway forced a 1.5-km diversion on Saturday, a day after repairs were completed on an adjacent damaged stretch. Engineers decided to reconstruct nearly one kilometre of carriageway rather than carry out surface-level repairs to prevent further settlement.
Heavy rain on Sunday caused the expressway to sink at around 10 more locations, including near km 45, 44 and 41. The Rs 4,200-crore expressway, inaugurated on July 13, has suffered repeated failures during its first monsoon. NHAI has suspended toll collection and an IIT-Kharagpur team is collecting samples from over 60 locations to test pavement quality and underlying layers.
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Narratives blaming the monsoon alone ignore a pattern: ten sink spots and recurring cracks within a month point to construction quality, not just weather. Hurried patchwork may be masking deeper defects, as experts note. The real test will be the IIT-Kharagpur lab reports, do the failures stop at the surface or go down to the subgrade? That answer will determine whether NHAI’s action against the contractor is enough.
Sources (2): hindustantimes.com, news.abplive.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
