Container bottleneck to be cleared

Saturday, Aug 29, 2009

Long queues of container trucks that clog Maa Anandmayee Marg in south Delhi may soon disappear. The arterial link leads to the Tughlaqabad inland container depot and may be decongested as early as 10 days from now.

Speaking at the governing body meeting of the United Traffic and Transport Infrastructure Centre on Friday, lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna directed DDA to hand over a large vacant plot located close to the Tughlaqabad facility for trailer parking. This would automatically ease the bottleneck on Maa Anandmayee Marg.

According to sources, the chaos at Tughlaqabad was brought to the notice of the office of the L-G some time back. A meeting was then held with senior functionaries of Container Corporation of India Limited to identify the reasons for the bottlenecks.Senior functionaries too visited the Tughlaqabad facility.

"It was found that a large number of trailers parked on the road as the depot had no place. Moreover, empty trailers, after depositing goods in places like Faridabad, Gurgaon and Ghaziabad, made their way to the Tughlaqabad facility to park in the hope of picking up a load to ferry on their way back. In the process, a major bottleneck was being created on Maa Anandmayee Marg," a top source revealed.

Meanwhile, Container Corporation of India Limited presented its plan of redevelopment of the depot facility as well. On Friday, the L-G directed DDA to hand over a large piece of land measuring 400 metres x 45 metres located in the vicinity of the Tughlaqabad depot to make room for parking. In his capacity as DDA chairman, he directed Container Corporation to prepare the site for the parking facility with immediate effect.

"Container Corporation has assured that the filling and levelling of land will take a few days and it will be made into a functional parking area for the trailers within 10 days," an official said.

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