Pain today, gain tomorrow? Metro work spells woe for capital’s commuters
11 Jun 2013 5:06 AM IST
Traffic across the national capital have been thrown out of gear because of various ongoing construction projects, including of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporations and flyovers. While additional Metro routes and flyovers will definitely ease pressure on the roads once operational, for now, traffic diversions and restrictions on roads, have resulted in daily trouble for commuters. According to DMRC officials, traffic restrictions due to work on the Metro stations is expected to carry on till early 2015.
In the meantime, complain commuters, dysfunctional traffic signals at the Mohammadpur-Africa Avenue crossing and the JNU Road and Aruna Asif Ali crossing, add to the chaos. Poor management by police personnel manning the signals do little to help resolve the traffic jam.
'The main carriageway of Ring Road, from the AIIMS side and moving towardsMoolchand, has been closed for Metro trial near South Extension (part 1). As a result, traffic has been diverted to the new carriageway built by DMRC, but there the traffic management here is poor,' said Rusha Jain, a commuter.
Areas such as Dhaula Kuan, Moti Bagh, South Extension, Nehru Place, INA and Azadpur, are the latest addition to the ongoing Metro construction work for its Phase III project. After suffering traffic jams in and around Connought Place for the Metro construction work at Janpath, commuters can now prepare themselves for more inconvenience for at least two more years, with DMRC starting work on five major stations, Bhikaji Cama Place, Sarojini Nagar, INA, Lajpat Nagar and Nizamuddin as part of its Phase III project.
The extension work will translate into traffic chaos on the Ring Road, and many arterial roads connected to it. There are about 75 Lakh vehicles registered in the capital and more than 20 lakh outside vehicles enter Delhi from neighbouring places daily. There are approximately 5,000 traffic officials deployed to manage the flow of this traffic
Additional commissioner of police, Delhi traffic, Anil Shukla, however, said, 'We have prepared diversion plans at the points around which traffic movement has been affected.'
In the meantime, complain commuters, dysfunctional traffic signals at the Mohammadpur-Africa Avenue crossing and the JNU Road and Aruna Asif Ali crossing, add to the chaos. Poor management by police personnel manning the signals do little to help resolve the traffic jam.
'The main carriageway of Ring Road, from the AIIMS side and moving towardsMoolchand, has been closed for Metro trial near South Extension (part 1). As a result, traffic has been diverted to the new carriageway built by DMRC, but there the traffic management here is poor,' said Rusha Jain, a commuter.
Areas such as Dhaula Kuan, Moti Bagh, South Extension, Nehru Place, INA and Azadpur, are the latest addition to the ongoing Metro construction work for its Phase III project. After suffering traffic jams in and around Connought Place for the Metro construction work at Janpath, commuters can now prepare themselves for more inconvenience for at least two more years, with DMRC starting work on five major stations, Bhikaji Cama Place, Sarojini Nagar, INA, Lajpat Nagar and Nizamuddin as part of its Phase III project.
The extension work will translate into traffic chaos on the Ring Road, and many arterial roads connected to it. There are about 75 Lakh vehicles registered in the capital and more than 20 lakh outside vehicles enter Delhi from neighbouring places daily. There are approximately 5,000 traffic officials deployed to manage the flow of this traffic
Additional commissioner of police, Delhi traffic, Anil Shukla, however, said, 'We have prepared diversion plans at the points around which traffic movement has been affected.'
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