The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has expressed concern over overloaded lorries, over-dimensional oil tankers and container trailers carrying cars to dealers ramming height gauges kept near Kochi Metro station sites.
There were serious accidents at Muttom and Kalamassery station construction sites recently when oversized lorries got entangled in steel beams that support the height gauges. This poses serious threat to safety of labourers.
In many instances, road traffic is disturbed for hours together as restoration works often take more than six hours. So far, four cases of lorries hitting scaffolding structures have been reported on NH 47.
The cases have been brought to the notice of Superintendent of Police, Ernakulam Rural.
The DMRC has requested operators of lorries mounted with over-dimensional consignments having height over 4.40 metres to avoid the metro alignment between Aluva and Edappally till the completion of civil works by December.
They must proceed to Kochi via Muvattupuzha, avoiding the metro alignment to prevent accidents.
Apart from warning boards, retro reflective stickers and illuminated warning lights had been provided in the height gauge, the metro agency said.
