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Double carriageways might ease traffic woes

If everything goes according to plan, Delhi Public Works Department [PWD] would soon construct parallel flyovers to the current ones to ensure that the vehicles moving in the other direction do not get stuck on congested traffic intersections.

PWD appointed RITES, a consultancy firm, to present the traffic improvement plan of the Outer Ring Road from IIT gate to NH-8.

On 5 July, the consultant submitted its report to PWD, which states that with the number of vehicles increasing at a steady pace, the single carriageway flyovers have become incapable of handling the growing volume of traffic. The government, according to them, should construct double carriageways at the earliest.

PWD sources said, the single carriageway were built as they were the most cost-effective option to handle traffic.

However, the government is now thinking of constructing parallel flyovers to the current ones to ensure that the vehicles moving in the other direction do not get stuck on congested traffic intersections.

A feasibility study by the consultant to construct a parallel flyover to the controversial single carriageway flyover at Rao Tula Ram Marg crossing has been commissioned and submitted to PWD minister Raj Kumar Chauhan.

Sources said that PWD now gave the presentation to Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre [UTTIPEC], and Delhi Development Authority, and that the project would most probably get a nod.

The report also said that the new parallel flyover at Rao Tula Ram Marg would benefit commuters in RK Puram, Vasant Vihar, JNU, Dwarka and Nehru Place.

Two single carriageway flyovers near Punjabi Bagh along the Ring Road and Seelampur flyover in east Delhi are next in line.

About 15 single carriageway flyovers have been constructed on three-armed traffic intersections in Delhi in the past one decade. While traffic moves smoothly on some flyovers, several others have started witnessing long traffic snarls. These flyovers cost about 60 per cent of the cost of a normal double carriageway flyover.
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