CM opens 2 flyovers for east Delhi residents

Wednesday, Feb 02, 2011




Commuters travelling between Delhi and Ghaziabad will now have a smooth ride as chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday inaugurated two flyovers - at Anand Vihar and G T Road. These projects will help reduce traffic jams at the border and reduce travel time between the two cities. A railway overbridge/underbridge was also inaugurated at Nand Nagri.

Dikshit said that with the commissioning of these two flyovers she hoped that traffic woes of east Delhi residents "will be part of history". She also announced that more such projects will soon come up in various parts of Delhi.

"There is a constant need in Delhi for developing better road network system and upgrade of the existing ones for catering to the ever-increasing traffic," she said. The grade separator at Anand Vihar ISBT crossing on road number 56 has been constructed at a cost of Rs 200 crore with 690-m long, six-lane dual carriages. It also has three foot-overbridges. "To ensure safe pedestrian movement on this stretch, signalized pedestrian crossings will also come up to prevent any accidents. This is being done as the FOBs are not ready for use as yet,'' said a PWD official. "To facilitate free left turn, existing bridges over the nullah at the T-junction of road number 56-57, 56-58A and 56-71 have been widened,'' said a PWD official.

According to PWD, G T Road at Apsara Border caters to large volume of traffic from the ISBT to Uttar Pradesh and vice-versa. "The grade separator commissioned at a cost of Rs 227 crore has been constructed with composite steel with pre-fabricated steel girder. This stretch has two underpasses along two sides of the road overbridge," said a PWD official. These flyovers were conceptualized five years ago and the proposals were approved in 2008.

A railway overbridge/underbridge - constructed at a cost of Rs 107 crore by Delhi Tourism And Transport Development Corporation - was also inaugurated at road number 68, Nand Nagri. The CM said that this road is one of the most important roads in trans-Yamuna area. It provides connectivity to GTB Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, Swami Dayanand Hospital, IHBAS and the UP border. The project was taken up as part of the scheme for closing all railway level crossings in Delhi. It is a unique combination of overbridge/underbridge, which caters to the requirements of both slow and fast moving traffic, and will provide signal-free traffic movement at Nathu Colony and at railway level crossing.

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