Mangaluru: Vehicular traffic on the Shiradi Ghat stretch along the Bengaluru-Mangaluru highway will be banned for four months from January 3 to facilitate completion of road concreting work.
According to an official release, the National Highways division of the state Public Works Department said the 12.5-km stretch in Sakleshpur taluk would be closed for traffic to complete the concrete road. The second phase of the Shiradi Ghat reconstruction work will be taken up at a cost of Rs 90.27crore. The 26 km stretch on National Highway 75 that connects coastal Karnataka with the state capital is expected to be completed by April 15 before the onset of monsoon.
The second phase of work comprises construction of a concrete road between Kempuhole Bridge and Addahole Bridge and asphalting 21 km of road between Gulagale and Heggadde in Sakaleshpur taluk.
The first phase of the project covering 13 km was completed in August.
