In order to decongest the national Capital, Centre on Monday announced plans for a rail network on Delhi’s lifeline Ring Road, linking various areas in the city.
“Considering long traffic jams in Delhi almost on a daily basis, we are considering the introduction of ‘Ring Road Train’, which will help us decongest roads in the national capital,” said Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. The Centre also plans to construct several flyovers, elevated highways and ring roads across the city.
“In the upcoming days, many new flyovers, Ring Roads, expansion of Metro lines and elevated highways will come up in Delhi following which the congestion is likely to be reduced in Delhi,” Naidu said at a function here. The Minister said that to suggest necessary measures for these projects, he has constituted a committee led by the Urban Development Secretary.
“This committee will submit its final report within 45 days and thereafter, the Central and State Government will work on these projects. We are also working on a project which will allow vehicles coming from the side of Haryana and wanting to go to other states to bypass national Capital and such vehicles don’t need to enter in the city due to which there will be no congestion in Delhi,” said Naidu.
The Central Government has already set a deadline of three years to complete the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressway, which aims to decongest Delhi roads. The two expressways — each about 135 km long — were planned in 2006 following a Supreme Court order to form a Ring Road outside Delhi for channelling non-Delhi bound traffic bypassing the national Capital.