Problems with roads and old bridges Indian overload containers and waves
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The bridge of Vinay Khola (Trust Bridge) of Dumkiwas in Vinay Triveni Rural Municipality of East Nawalparasi under East-West Highway collapsed on 25th of December. The bridge collapsed after being hit by a wave truck bearing Indian number NL 01AH 5179.
The bridge was damaged by waves carrying an overload. Passengers suffered. During the expansion of the Butwal-Narayangadh road section, commuters who were facing the problem of long traffic jams at Daunne faced long traffic jams again after the bridge collapsed. Two days later, after making a diversion, the journey became somewhat easier.
On 29 July 2076, the bridge collapsed in Madhyabindu Municipality, 11 Arun Khola on this road section. After the bridge collapsed due to the collision of the cargo truck No. 6K 471, the passengers suffered. For months commuters had to use diversions. As it was rainy season, the diversion was repeatedly carried out, causing the east-west passengers to sit in traffic jams for hours. Most took an alternative route.
On November 25, 2073, the bridge on the Lokaha River located in Devchuli Municipality-13 was also washed away due to the collision of the truck number 6K 3017. For months passengers had to travel through diversions. These are representative events only. Jayashree in Gaindakot and Turia river bridge in Sunwal have also been washed away.
The bridges (trust bridges) under the Butwal-Narayangadh road section are more than 50 years old. At that time, more than a thousand vehicles pass through the bridge, which was built according to the traffic pressure and load capacity of the bridge. On top of that, there is a rush to bear the load of the overloaded Indian vehicles. There is a trend of letting the overloaded vehicles pay only a simple fine, so that the roads and bridges have become dilapidated due to the vehicles that the roads and bridges cannot handle, and there is a problem of old bridges collapsing.
The police, who take action up to the point of fines and removal of goods if Nepalese vehicles carry overload, have a problem with taking the goods and their weight from Indian containers and waves. The traffic police does not have the right to open and unload the goods that have been sealed from the customs. In addition, weighing centers in Nepal only weigh up to 100 tons, so it is not possible to weigh Indian containers with overloads. This has made roads and old bridges become containers and wave loads of Indian overload.
'Overloaded vehicles are fined and if the goods are too overloaded, they are sent to another vehicle,' Janakraj Banjara, head of District Traffic Police Office East Nawalparasi, said, 'Indian containers and lahiri have goods checked and sealed by customs, so the middle road is sealed. There is a problem because we don't have the means to open and weigh the goods Experts say that the load capacity of the bridge built at the time of construction is less than double. But at that time, there is no definite data about how many load capacity bridges have been built. The old bridges were built more than 50 years ago. Shiv Khanal, the information officer of Butwal-Narayangadh Road Extension Project East Section, said that the bridges built at a time when the traffic was very low will definitely have a problem in carrying the current overload.
