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He asked open-ended question to media and said, “With so much money spent on developing the skywalk project, what could be done now? If these options failed to address the traffic congestion, only then the government should have given the nod for the high budget skywalk project.” Traffic congestion would have lessened if a flyover was constructed from Shastri Chowk to Amapara Chowk. To address traffic congestion, some other options could have been thought such as a separate platform similar to Fafadih could have been constructed. That is why we need time to address the issue and conclude its status of existence.” Raipur mayor Pramod Dubey alleged that the skywalk project was given to a construction company from Lucknow, which already had three pending projects in the state..