New river bridge in Odisha to cut travel time to and from Bhubaneswar

Those travelling in or out of Bhubaneswar will soon be able to cut down on a lot of travel time, thanks to the upcoming river bridge in Odisha that will play an instrumental role in making this possible.
Constructed over the Mahanadi River, the bridge is nearing completion and will soon be ready to use for the commuters. The three-lane bridge will connect Bhubaneswar to NH-55 and will also help in easing out the congestion on NH-16, which is the only highway that acts as a connecting link between some key place of Odisha, including Sambalpur, Angul and Dhenkanal.

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The works department is constructing the bridge across from Chahata on the Ring Road in the north to Nuapatna near Choudwar. If the estimated data is taken into consideration, as many as 30,000 vehicles ply on NH-55 through NH-16 via Cuttack towards the south.


An official of the works department that the construction of the 2.58 km long bridge is already complete and that only a few finishing touches are left before it gets ready for being opened for daily traffic.

Built at a cost of INR 157 crores, the bridge has a 10.5 m carriageway and includes a 6 ft wide footpath for pedestrians and cycles on both sides.

When it comes to a few other advantages of this bridge, it will reportedly cut down the distance between Dhenkanal and Bhubaneswar by around 22 km. This simply means that the vehicles travelling towards Bhubaneswar from Dhenkanal will no longer need to travel via Manguli Chhak in order to come on the NH-6 route; instead, they can cross the bridge from Nuapatna to Markatnagar and move towards Barang en route the Netaji Setu to reach the national highway at Pitapalli.