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Delhi plans a Signal free Corridor

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is planning to make a corridor from Rani Jhansi Road to Punjabi Bagh which is expected to make New Rohtak Road a signal-free stretch.The project, which will cost around Rs 200 crore, is pending with DDA’s technical committee. According to the plan, an underpass will be made at Anand Parbat T-point and two flyovers will be built near Liberty cinema and on Faiz Road, respectively. The Anand Parbat area faces jams on daily basis, forcing the civic body to conceive the idea of the corridor. In 2005, the residents living near New Rohtak Road had moved the Delhi High Court over the traffic congestion issue. MCD, along with CRRI, had carried out a survey of the area and decided to make an underpass at Anand Parbat T- point and a flyover near Liberty and another one at New Rohtak Road-Faiz Road intersection.The MCD claims that west and north Delhi constitute 60% of the traffic volume of the city. It is for this reason that the civic agency is trying to decongest the area. It is planning to make another corridor from Talkatora Stadium to Rajouri Garden. As per plans, an underpass will be made from Shankar Road to Patel Road and vice versa, in front of Siddharth Hotel. Another underpass will be made at Shankar Road near the Upper Ridge Road and a flyover will come up at Vandemataram Marg. Besides this, a flyover is being built from Filmistan cinema to St Stephen’s Hospital, work on which will begin soon. This will provide six-lanes of uninterrupted road space for vehicles and will ensure signal-free traffic from ISBT to Dhaula Kuan.

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