lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday chaired the governing body meeting of ‘Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure’ in which a presentation was made on ‘Integrated Transit Corridor Development and street Network/Connectivity Plan’ for the corridor along with detailed design of all intersections and mid sections based on traffic and feasibility studies for the corridor or network.
“lt-Governor was briefed by the concerned agencies about the various issues and its solutions such as construction of half underpass on outer Ring road between Gopalpur Red light-Jagatpur Bridge, integrated transit corridor development and street connectivity plan for extension of existing Ashram flyover up to DND (Ring Road), modified proposal for construction of back to back ‘U’-turn on road number 13-A, G.D. Marg, Sarita Vihar’, stated an official release from the lt Governor’s office.
The proposals of Public Work Department (PWD), GNCTD were also approved by the governing body of UTTI that includes connectivity of Mathura road to Ring road through underground tunnel below the ITPO (Pragati Maidan area), along with underground u-turns on Mathura Road from ‘W’ point to up to Sundar Nagar. Further a corridor development plan of GT road from old Yamuna Bridge to Apsara Border including the doubling of existing Seelampur flyover was also approved.
Proposal also includes a two way flyover on Shastri Park junction, grade separators on outer ring road that includes connecting existing Modi Mill flyover with existing Kalkaji flyover, doubling of Savitri Cinema flyover, two way flyover on Malviya Nagar junction, doubling of the existing lanes of Sarai Kale Khan Flyover on ring road, multi modal integration of the 6 existing metro stations such as Shastri Nagar, Jahangirpuri, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, Dwarka Mor, Nehru Place to provide the last mile connectivity for pedestrians.
lt Governor advised to provide better traffic engineering solutions that help in removing chokepoints at traffic merging locations including better traffic planning and traffic merging solutions. He also directed that the approvals granted must be implemented in time-bound manner.