26.11.14

Somewhere in Delhi....


Phase-III of the Barapullah elevated road, which will connect east and south Delhi, finally received the go ahead from lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung. Work on the bridge, associated slip roads and loops will begin in 2015 and finish by the end of 2017. The 3.4km stretch will connect Mayur Vihar Phase-I with Sarai Kale Khan.Phase-I of the project was constructed in 2010 and connects Sarai Kale Khan with Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Meanwhile, work on Phase-II which connects JLN Stadium with INA Market is expected to start in December.“The road will provide an essential link between east and south Delhi. The existing links like Ring Road at Ashram and Bhairon Marg are extremely congested. Once the project is ready, it will take about 10 minutes to travel from Mayur Vihar to South Extension,“ said a PWD official. Jung has approved Rs.1,260.63 crore for the project.He has asked PWD to devise a traffic management plan to ensure there is no congestion at AIIMS and INA during the construction. “Now that the budget has been approved, tenders will be floated for the project and the work should be awarded before March 2015. It will then take two-and-a-half years to complete the work,“ said a source.
This will be the 16th bridge on the Yamuna in Delhi. Each carriageway will have four lanes and one dedicated lane for pedestrians and cyclists.The 550m-long bridge, which will be built on stilts and not on an embankment, will be an `extradosed' bridge with only six piers in the river and each span as long as 128m. The bridge will be a break from the conventional bridges that can be seen over the Yamuna and will have pylons above the bridge deck. High tensile cables will suspend the deck from the pylons. A promenade has also been planned on it for pedestrians to get an uninterrupted view of the river. The decks, proposed at each pier location, will have street furniture and greenery .
“To provide signal-free access to UP Link Road near Mayur Vihar, a flyover parallel to the existing single carriageway flyover will be built with loops and slip roads from Barapullah Road to Akshardham, and to Noida. Two clover leaves will also be built to provide signal-free entry and exit from Mayur Vihar,“ said an official.

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