A weak link between Noida and Delhi
Khan have direct access to the flyover to reach Noida. Once this loop is ready, the department will open the corridor.
REPEATED DELAYS
Despite being 95% complete, the PWD said it has set a fresh deadline for its completion, which has pushed commissioning of the flyover by exactly a year. The department said the flyover will now be operational only by September as it will construct a loop to connect it with the Barapullah Phase 3 corridor.
When work on the flyover started in 2015, PWD had set a target of completing it by September 2017. But, that could not happen because PWD did not get an approval from the forest department to remove trees along the stretch.
The deadline was then rescheduled to February 2018, but this, too, was missed. A new deadline was set and this time it was May, which, yet again, passed by.
Joint commissioner of police (traffic) Garima Bhatnagar said the Delhi traffic police has given all approvals for the PWD to go ahead with opening the flyover. “Rumours were being spread that the traffic police has asked the PWD to first finish all loops connecting the flyover. This is not true,” Bhatnagar said.
A PROBELM OF LOOPS
As per the plan, the Noida Link Road flyover will have six loops, which residents said would transform the area. These loops, according to PWD, are important as it would allow commuters to travel directly to south Delhi from east Delhi and Noida and vice versa.
“Construction on ‘Loop 5’, which will allow people coming from Sarai Kale Khan to use the new flyover and go to Noida directly, will take another three months. First, we will build the portion that falls above the flyover so that the current incoming traffic towards Delhi is not obstructed,” another official, who is part of the project, said.
Once the span over the flyover is ready, PWD said it will open the new flyover. “The other patch of the loop, which falls on the existing Noida Link Road will then be taken up and traffic on that part of the carriageway will be stopped for construction,” the official said. Once the flyover opens, the signal will be removed and Mayur Vihar-1 bound traffic will be managed with the help of two loops.
The flyover will also connect commuters directly to the Barapullah elevated corridor, which is expected to reduce travel time and provide signal-free movement between Mayur Vihar and INA.
The long wait, however, is “getting frustrating” for residents of Mayur Vihar Phase 1 and Mayur Vihar Extension.
Knowing that he will have to wait for three more months for the flyover to open, Ratul Ahmed, a resident of Mayur Vihar Extension, said, “The long wait is getting really frustrating.”
The flyover is being built as widener to the existing flyover on Noida Link Road
It will be meant for traffic coming from Noida and going to Akshardham
The flyover is a part of Barapullah Phase 3 project which is running far behind its schedule
Yamuna river Mahamaya flyover
PWD will build only ‘Loop 5’ for now, the flyover will be opened by September
Other loops will be built when land is acquired for Barapullah Phase 3
Once ready, the intersection will be significant as traffic load is expected to increase because of the Mayur Vihar Phase 1 Metro station being prepared as an interchange station
Mayur Vihar Phase 1 Metro station will be an interchange between the Blue Line (Noida/vaishali-dwarka) and upcoming Pink Line (Majlis Park-shiv Vihar) once it becomes operational
Future plans include developing the entire area with a Multi Modal Integrated (MMI) transit system
The project looks stuck. The pace of work was quite good when construction began in May 2015. But now things have slowed down completely. Due to the construction, the Uturn to go back to Akshardham is shut. So, people have to use roads inside Mayur Vihar Phase1 to cross the road.