Mangalore: According to sources, the new Road Over Bridge (RoB) over the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line on the Bondel-Vamanjoor Road at Pachchanady has opened for daily travel on November 23 2021. 

It is learnt that in the year 2017, Southern Railway’s construction wing had destroyed the old 6-metre-wide and 9.25-metre-long RoB to facilitate doubling of the rail line between Mangaluru Junction and Panambur. The Railways had provided a temporary level-crossing, about 300 metres to the south of the old RoB. Delay in completing the new RoB had irked road users and local residents.

Though work on the RoB was completed in October, motorists were not allowed to use the bridge as the approach roads had not been built. The Bondel-Vamanjoor Road was closed for all kinds of traffic for over a month to facilitate construction of approach roads.

Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and other elected representatives had urged the Southern Railway to complete the project at the earliest.