This story is from July 26, 2020

Two flyovers in NE Delhi almost ready, to cut travel time by 30 minutes

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Shastri Park flyover construction site on Friday to review the progress of the project. Scheduled to be completed by October 2020, the flyover is nearing completion and the straight, unlooped section will be inaugurated next month.
Two flyovers in NE Delhi almost ready, to cut travel time by 30 minutes
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Shastri Park flyover construction site on Friday to review the progress of the project
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Shastri Park flyover construction site on Friday to review the progress of the project. Scheduled to be completed by October 2020, the flyover is nearing completion and the straight, unlooped section will be inaugurated next month.
Kejriwal said that the construction of the flyover at Shastri Park and Seelampur would ease the difficulties of commuters in these areas. “The construction of both the Shastri Park flyover and the Seelampur flyover has been nearly completed.
The straight portion will be inaugurated in August and the loops will take a month and a half more to be completed,” he said. “The sanctioned cost of the projects was Rs 303 crore, but we are hoping to finish it for Rs 250 crore. The project got a little delayed because of the Covid restrictions, else it would have been completed by now.”
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The Shastri Park junction flyover is planned to be 700 metres long and will be a two-way flyover. Each of the carriageways is around 10.5 metres wide. The flyover will eventually have two loops, one for vehicles coming from Khajuri Chowk and going towards Kashmere Gate, the second for traffic coming from Gandhi Nagar and turning towards Shahdara. The project is expected to reduce travel time between the interstate bus terminal at Kashmere Gate and Shahdara by five minutes-seven minutes.
PWD had initially planned to erect two flyovers — one at Seelampur and another at Shastri Park — but after considering the bottlenecks impeding traffic flow on the entire stretch, a third flyover at the Dharampura junction was added to the Rs 350-crore project.
The construction of the first two flyovers began in April 2019. The one at the Shastri Park junction is 700 metres long and has six lanes, three on either side of the central verge. The officials said that these will render the passage from
ISBT Kashmere Gate to Dilshad Garden signal free and cut travel time between the two points from the current 40 minutes to a mere 15 minutes. The second flyover at the Seelampur junction is 1.3-km long and is double-laned.
Delhi government officials said that the budget for the flyovers was cleared by the state cabinet in July 2017. The Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre, or UTTIPEC, the regulatory body for transport infrastructure in Delhi, had approved the project a month earlier in June 2017. An official expressed optimism that these flyovers would boost the road infrastructure in east Delhi, and once operational, would make the stretch between ISBT Kashmere Gate and the Uttar Pradesh border free of traffic signals.
PWD will also upgrade the existing roads by widening the underpasses there by three metres. The Seelampur Chowk will be expanded and provided with a signal-free left turn and U-turn to decongest the area.
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