Traffic came to a halt in the morning hours on Thursday on the busy Puducherry-Villupuram Highway due to a damaged railway level crossing gate at Arumbarthapuram.
The railway gate was said to have been damaged after a lorry rammed into it on Wednesday night.
Work on the construction of a railway over bridge at Arumbarthapuram has been ongoing for couple of years. Former Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge had laid the foundation stone for works in 2013.
When Southern Railway General Manager Rakesh Misra visited Puducherry in December last year, he had said that work was progressing on the construction of the railway over bridge at Arumbarthapuram, with the construction of girders nearly complete. He had added that the Railway was waiting for the Puducherry government to complete the remaining portions of the work.
