PWD plans parking under flyovers

Monday, March 22, 2010

 

The Public Works Department (PWD) is planning to build parking lots under flyovers along busy markets to help check on-road parking. The first such parking lots will come up below the flyovers built over Nelson Mandela crossing in Munirka, Azadpur and Naraina.

"Since there is enough space below these flyovers, we plan to convert the space into parking lots. The modalities for executing the parking plan will be sorted out in the near future. We have not yet calculated how many cars can be accommodated in these parking lots,'' said PWD engineer-in-chief Rakesh Mishra.

The move will not only ensure maintenance of the open space below the flyovers but will also help control on-road parking along these commercial areas and thereby improving the traffic flow on those stretches. Earlier, PWD had planned to maintain all the space below flyovers by carrying out landscaping.

"There is no parking place in Munirka market and, hence, vehicles are seen parked on the road and this affects smooth flow of traffic. Once space is provided for parking, things will improve,'' said a traffic police personnel.

The PWD has also finalized the design for three foot overbridges (FOBs) to be built on Outer Ring Road between IIT flyover and Rao Tularam Marg for safe passage of pedestrians. "We will invite bids for all the three FOBs soon and hope to complete the work by June end,'' said PWD principal chief engineer A K Sinha.

On Wednesday, chief minister Sheila Dikshit, accompanied by PWD minister Raj Kumar Chauhan had formally inaugurated the Nelson Mandela flyover at Munirka, built at a cost of with Rs 104 crore investment. Chauhan had earlier thrown the stretch open to traffic after work on it was completed. The flyover is built over Vivekananda Marg-Nelson Mandela Marg and Poorvi Marg intersections on Outer Ring Road (ORR).

The ORR is an important intra-urban arterial for Delhi. The DDA, in the Perspective Development Plan, has defined the entire corridor as a high speed-high arterial road with partial or complete access control. The ORR stretch, between IIT Gate and NH-8, caters to a sizeable volume of traffic. Over two lakh vehicles pass through this stretch everyday. 

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