Action plan on anvil to decongest traffic at Pusa road

New Delhi, Dec 26 (UNI) The Delhi Government is drawing up an action plan to decongest traffic at Pusa Road chowk and at New Rohtak Road which envisages building of an underpass and a flyover between Liberty Cinema Chowk and Anand Parbat to enable smooth flow of traffic between North and Central Delhi.

Delhi Urban Development and PWD Minister Dr A K Walia today directed senior officers of the PWD, Central Road Research Institute(CRRI), Delhi Police and the MCD to immediately finalise an action plan to decongest traffic at Pusa Road Chowk and at New Rohtak Road from Liberty Cinema Chowk to Anand Parbat. He also gave specific instructions for construction of an underpass at Pusa Road Chowk and an underpass and a flyover on New Rohtak Road to enable smooth flow of traffic between North and Central Delhi.

Issuing the directions after a high level meeting to discuss the issue, which was attended by Chief Whip of the Ruling Legislature Party Ramakant Goswami and senior officers from all concerned Departments, Dr Walia said the Delhi Government would no longer remain a mute spectator over the present situation of heavy and long traffic jams over these roads, causing a lot of inconvenience and delay to commuters at large. He has also instructed all concerned officers to come back with a most feasible action plan which could be implemented at the earliest to provide much wanted relief to the people.

The action plan envisages construction of an underpass at T-point near Anand Parbat on new Rohtak Road to facilitate direct flow of traffic to and fro Liberty Cinema to Punjabi Bagh without disturbing traffic turning towards Shakti Nagar, Shastri Nagar and Gulabi Bagh.

Further, there is a plan to build a flyover near Liberty Cinema Chowk to facilitate direct flow of traffic to and from Jhandewalan to Punjabi Bagh without disturbing the flow of traffic moving towards Desh Bandhu Gupta Road.

Apart from this Dr Walia directed all concerned officers to plan an underpass at Pusa Road facilitating smooth and direct flow of traffic to and fro Pusa Road to Shadipur Depot without disturbing flow of traffic coming from Naraina and Shankar Road which would be managed at ground level with the help of existing rotary.

Dr Walia said following the implementation of the action plan, Pusa Road Chowk would give a look of three level traffic management as Metro route is existing at the top level.

Pusa Road Chowk is an important intersection connecting five roads bearing high quantum of traffic. Dr Walia expressed confidence that new projects would be able to provide relief to a large number of people and commuters before commencement of the Commonwealth Games 2010.

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