Delhi Government is constructing a flyover at Sarai Kale Khan to ease traffic movement. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of a flyover at Sarai Kale Khan. The three-lane flyovers will come up parallel to an existing one on the other carriageway of the Ring Road at Sarai Kale Khan. The flyover would cost Rs 65.55 crore.
"Sarai Kale Khan is one of the busiest areas of Delhi, where traffic will increase further due to ISBT, metro station, railway station, and RRTS," Sisodia said in a series of tweets in Hindi.
"To make the traffic smooth, the foundation stone of a new 3-lane flyover was laid here today, it will be ready in 1 year and will make this T-junction signal free," Sisodia said. The project, which was planned at the beginning of this year, will aid commuters travelling from the NCR cities of Noida and Ghaziabad and ITO connecting to the Ashram flyover and other areas. The 550m-long three-lane flyover is proposed to be constructed along the existing single flyover on Ring Road for vehicles travelling from ITO towards Ashram via the Sarai Kale Khan T-junction.
The new flyover would help decongest the ISBT and T-junction, where a Rapid Rail Transit System station is coming up, apart from Nizamuddin Railway Station. Currently, traffic coming from Mayur Vihar and Noida via Delhi-Meerut Expressway merges at Sarai Kale Khan bus stand, which makes this stretch very busy.
The diverging point on the road leads to Barapullah elevated corridor, where there is already traffic slowdown due to construction of a pillar of RRTS. "With this flyover, lakhs of vehicles going from ITO to Ashram daily will get rid of traffic.
There will be less emission of 5 tonnes of carbon gas per day," he said.
"In terms of economic value of fuel and time, there will be a saving of Rs 19 crore of the public every year, which will recover the cost of the project within 3.5 years," Sisodia tweeted.