Outer Ring Road will be made signal- free

Delhi chief secretary S. K. Shrivastava said that he was very impressed by the way PWD was developing Delhi by constructing elevated roads and flyovers, which are fuel efficient

The public works department ( PWD) will employ “single pillar technology” to convert the arterial Outer Ring Road into a signal- free stretch. In the optimal utilisation of the road space, the construction of flyovers on single pillars from Vikaspuri to Mukarba Chowk will leave the road space under the flyovers for the movement of road traffic.

Officials said that the technology will not eat away the crucial road space under the flyovers, which the flyovers not constructed using this technology consume. The official said that the flyovers constructed on the stretch will be doubledecker in actual terms.

“The employment of this technology will save the ever decreasing road space for the movement of traffic under the flyovers. The flyovers which are not constructed on a single pillar, such as the one at Naraina, do not allow traffic movement on the roads underneath them and the space has to be utilised for parking of vehicles. The department will employ the latest and improved technology to execute the urban road projects in the national capital. Advanced technologies, such as micro- surfacing of the roads, use of bituminous mastic at junctions and plastic waste for the construction of the roads in the city, which the department has been employing to construct roads, have now been replicated in the entire nation,” PWD’s engineer- in- chief Dinesh Kumar said, adding that the arterial Outer Ring Road will be made signal- free in another year.

Speaking on the sidelines of the PWD Day on Friday, Delhi chief secretary S. K. Shrivastava said that he was very impressed by the way PWD was developing Delhi by constructing elevated roads and flyovers, which are fuel efficient. “I would like to suggest to choose right contractors so that projects are delivered on time,” the chief secretary added while releasing two books about achieve- ments of PWD and cost benefit analysis of flyovers constructed for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.

A study conducted by the department shows that the 18 flyover structures constructed for ` 3,148 crores have resulted in savings of ` 2,698 crores, excluding the cost of carbon credits earned. The analysis further says ` 2, 698 crores has been saved in terms of monetised value of fuel and it is estimated to save 2,096 million man- hours till 2013. The pattern of analysis shows that total 622 million litres of fuel have been saved during the same period.