On Tuesday, the Delhi Traffic Police chief, Muktesh Chander, took note of the crisis situation and asked officials to take necessary steps to resolve it as soon as possible.
The authorities had earlier informed that half of the carriageway (on AIIMS to Dhaula Kuan direction) on the Ring Road stretch near Moti Bagh, will remain closed from March 14 to March 26 to facilitate repair of the flyover taken up by PWD. “But we hope that necessary steps are taken immediately and we are spared of the horror which could otherwise last till March 26,” said Bidish Goswami, manager at a private firm in South Delhi’ Bhikaji Cama Place.
Some DTC buses moving towards Dhaula Kuan have in fact started diverting towards Africa Avenue, heading straight towards Vinay Marg, then turning left on Panchsheel Marg and finally taking the Sardar Patel Marg to reach Dhaula Kuan, just to avoid the mismanaged zone during peak hours, said a source in DTC.
Commuters heading further south towards Kapasera border, Airport, Mahipalpur and Gurgaon have started taking the Vivekananda Marg to reach their destinations.
According to a traffic official, the southern stretch on Ring Road witnesses high traffic volume and diverting the whole traffic through any particular alternative will only end up choking other roads.
For a long-term solution, the traffic near Moti Bagh ideally has to be segregated through ‘flairing’, which means providing extra space, through which traffic can ply out to take a desired direction, said Dr Sewa Ram, expert in traffic engineering and transport infrastructure design. He further said that this separation should start at least 500 metres before the flyover begins. At the same time, it is also necessary to inform drivers about changing the lanes at least 100 metres before the point from which flairing (separation) takes place.
“Another problem that adds to the traffic crisis at Moti Bagh is that the flyover at the Bhikaji Cama Place is steeper than other flyovers on the Ring Road. So vehicles approaching from AIIMS land at the Moti Bagh zone at a higher speed, disrupting the equation of the traffic,” Dr Sewa Ram added.
The authorities had earlier informed that half of the carriageway (on AIIMS to Dhaula Kuan direction) on the Ring Road stretch near Moti Bagh, will remain closed from March 14 to March 26 to facilitate repair of the flyover taken up by PWD. “But we hope that necessary steps are taken immediately and we are spared of the horror which could otherwise last till March 26,” said Bidish Goswami, manager at a private firm in South Delhi’ Bhikaji Cama Place.
Some DTC buses moving towards Dhaula Kuan have in fact started diverting towards Africa Avenue, heading straight towards Vinay Marg, then turning left on Panchsheel Marg and finally taking the Sardar Patel Marg to reach Dhaula Kuan, just to avoid the mismanaged zone during peak hours, said a source in DTC.
Commuters heading further south towards Kapasera border, Airport, Mahipalpur and Gurgaon have started taking the Vivekananda Marg to reach their destinations.
According to a traffic official, the southern stretch on Ring Road witnesses high traffic volume and diverting the whole traffic through any particular alternative will only end up choking other roads.
For a long-term solution, the traffic near Moti Bagh ideally has to be segregated through ‘flairing’, which means providing extra space, through which traffic can ply out to take a desired direction, said Dr Sewa Ram, expert in traffic engineering and transport infrastructure design. He further said that this separation should start at least 500 metres before the flyover begins. At the same time, it is also necessary to inform drivers about changing the lanes at least 100 metres before the point from which flairing (separation) takes place.
“Another problem that adds to the traffic crisis at Moti Bagh is that the flyover at the Bhikaji Cama Place is steeper than other flyovers on the Ring Road. So vehicles approaching from AIIMS land at the Moti Bagh zone at a higher speed, disrupting the equation of the traffic,” Dr Sewa Ram added.