The traffic mess emerging from the closure of one carriageway of the Chirag Delhi flyover has resulted in the vehicular load on internal roads in neighbouring areas rising manyfold, exacerbating an already dire situation for residents who have been navigating harrowing trips to and from their homes since Sunday due to the chaos along Outer Ring Road.
With tailbacks from the Chirag Delhi intersection often stretching till the Nehru Place junction 2km away, commuters using that carriageway to go towards Hauz Khas, Saket or Lajpat Nagar have started using colony roads to skip the clogged crossing.
On one side of Outer Ring Road, the worst affected stretches include EPDP Road, Inder Mohan Bhardwaj and CR Park Main Road, which link GK-2, Alaknanda, CR Park and Kalkaji. On the opposite side, Greater Kailash Road and Hansraj Gupta Marg, which serve as access points to GK-1, Pamposh Enclave, East of Kailash and Andrews Ganj, have been hit badly.
As a result, residents of these parts are now forced to make their way through glacial queues during their commutes and deal with heightened noise pollution for much of the day.
The closure kicked in on Sunday evening, when the Delhi public works department (PWD) shut the Nehru Place to IIT Delhi carriageway of the Chirag Delhi flyover for 25 days to allow structural repairs. The opposite stretch will also be shut for 25 days once repairs on the first carriageway are complete. To be sure, the Delhi government has indicated that efforts are being made to finish the project in 30 days, instead of 50.
This story is from the March 17, 2023 edition of Hindustan Times.
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