West Delhi commuters to get 4-lane space on way to NH-8

Saturday , June 27, 2009
source:http://www.expressindia.com

West Delhi residents headed for Dhaula Kuan from Janakpuri will now have easy time, with the traffic police planning to add another lane for cars and two-wheelers by barricading a portion of the other carriageway.

"We had received a lot of complaints about recurrent traffic jams on this stretch, so we felt that West Delhi residents heading towards NH-8 require more vehicle space," said Joint Commissioner, Traffic, S N Shrivastava.

The West Delhi commuter, instead of the three-lane carriageway, will now have four-lane space. The method, called contraflow, has been successfully used by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on NH-8, for vehicular flow towards Gurgaon till the construction of the airport line is completed.

The barricading will be put up only from 8 to 11am. The traffic police are not planning to reverse it towards the other side during evening for the present. "We will wait to see whether the plans works out," Shrivastava added.