Kalkaji flyover becomes commuters’ nightmare
25 Sept 2014 4:33 AM IST
Metro construction being carried out in the area, with hardly any officials deployed there to manage the traffic, has worsened the condition.
In the absence of enough land space to increase lanes in and around the bottleneck zones, experts suggest that separating inter-city traffic from Delhi’s heavy traffic shall certainly reduce the pressure.
The traffic near Modi Mill and Kalkaji temple is at its peak from around 9 in the morning to 11.30 am and again between 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm, said a traffic official. The bottlenecks around both the flyovers (Modi Mill and Kalkaji) on the Outer Ring Road are due to faulty planning.
‘Each flyover there has three lanes on one side, so do the connecting roads to Govindpuri and Mathura Road. The ends of these flyovers, where the traffic merge should have six lanes on each side, while there are only three of them. Hence, congestion is inevitable,’ said Dr K Ravinder, senior scientist at the transport planning and environment division of Central Road Research Institute (CRRI).
He further said it is high time that inter-city traffic be separated from Delhi’s already congested roads. Unless that is done, no plan to counter bottlenecks shall work. ‘When horizontal expansion is not possible, city planners should go for vertical expansion. Elevated roads can be a solution but again there is the risk of new bottlenecks being created,’ Ravinder added.
Dr PK Sarkar, head of department of transport planning at the School of Planning and Architecture said, ‘an underpass connecting Ma Anandmayee Marg with the Nehru Place junction may relieve these bottlenecks. But, in this plan, there is again the risk of congesting Nehru Place. So a well-regulated intermediate transport system that includes auto-rickshaw, taxi and feeder services, is the need of the hour for Delhi.’
In the absence of enough land space to increase lanes in and around the bottleneck zones, experts suggest that separating inter-city traffic from Delhi’s heavy traffic shall certainly reduce the pressure.
The traffic near Modi Mill and Kalkaji temple is at its peak from around 9 in the morning to 11.30 am and again between 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm, said a traffic official. The bottlenecks around both the flyovers (Modi Mill and Kalkaji) on the Outer Ring Road are due to faulty planning.
‘Each flyover there has three lanes on one side, so do the connecting roads to Govindpuri and Mathura Road. The ends of these flyovers, where the traffic merge should have six lanes on each side, while there are only three of them. Hence, congestion is inevitable,’ said Dr K Ravinder, senior scientist at the transport planning and environment division of Central Road Research Institute (CRRI).
He further said it is high time that inter-city traffic be separated from Delhi’s already congested roads. Unless that is done, no plan to counter bottlenecks shall work. ‘When horizontal expansion is not possible, city planners should go for vertical expansion. Elevated roads can be a solution but again there is the risk of new bottlenecks being created,’ Ravinder added.
Dr PK Sarkar, head of department of transport planning at the School of Planning and Architecture said, ‘an underpass connecting Ma Anandmayee Marg with the Nehru Place junction may relieve these bottlenecks. But, in this plan, there is again the risk of congesting Nehru Place. So a well-regulated intermediate transport system that includes auto-rickshaw, taxi and feeder services, is the need of the hour for Delhi.’
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