Bypass eatery parking lot height hits Metro plans

Kolkata | Tuesday | 26th March, 2019

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If the service road is built right next to it, the restaurant will be flooded during monsoon and thus lose out on business. “Either the police handles this or it is taken up politically,” a KMDA official iterated. KOLKATA: As if the refusal of the owner of an eatery to part with its parking lot were not enough, the height mismatch of EM Bypass and the parking area has turned out to be a bigger stumbling block for the Airport-New Garia Metro link. The 600 sqm land is not only needed for the service road to divert north-bound traffic but also for the EM Bypass widening project.Repeated calls and messages to Saha yielded no response. But he denied having received any official letter to part with the parking lot, which is built on land vested with the government.Metro Railway isn’t supposed to handle encroachment..