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  • | Tuesday | 19th February, 2019

In fact, this spot is a notorious bottleneck created by traffic from the direction of Faridabad merging with traffic coming down the loop of the Modi Mill flyover. The slip road is never free of encroachments, and whenever a driver tries to access the BRT corridor, the lack of space results in conflict between the oncoming traffic and slip road users.Vikas Marg is in a similar shambles. NEW DELHI: The ride down Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi is stalled by traffic jams on at least three stretches. The location of the U-turn in the middle of the road suddenly reduces the road width and leaves it prone to accidents. Cars driving into incoming traffic at Laxmi Nagar metro station only add to the mess.

NEW DELHI: The ride down Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi is stalled by traffic jams on at least three stretches. These and similar spots on 77 other roads were to have been tackled by the civic bodies and Delhi Police , but the progress has been very slow, and TOI found illegally parked vehicles and unauthorised shrines, even trees, creating obstacles at the five places that it visited.The decongestion of these roads was planned two years ago, with a slew of proposals, including alteration of road-geometry. “Since a number of agencies are involved in the decongestion plan, we have to coordinate with all of these on the drive,” explained Alok Kumar, joint commissioner of police (Traffic). “There is no time frame for the completion of the plan, and the process is constant and going on.”On Aurobindo Marg, two traffic intersections and an unmanned cut for pedestrians are close to each other between AIIMS and Green Park, a 1-km stretch. Traffic was once smooth here, but is now forever slowed. A U-turn around 50 metres from Aurobindo Market is a particular problem point. For over five minutes drivers are left negotiating their way past vehicles exiting Green Park on the wrong side of the road to be able to reach the U-turn towards Gulmohar Park.The guarded U-turn near the exit gate of AIIMS adds to the mess. The location of the U-turn in the middle of the road suddenly reduces the road width and leaves it prone to accidents. Close by, at Yusuf Sarai Market, TOI found parking assistants deployed by the municipal corporation allowing vehicles to park in two rows, eating into road space.Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, which connects Noida and south Delhi with Gurgaon, offers no possibility of seamless traffic movement with the trees, garbage dumps, unauthorised road crossings and encroachments along its course. The illegally plying three wheelers or Grameen Sewa vehicles, which operate with utter disregard for road rules, only add to the anarchy. And then there are two religious structures encroaching on the main road near Khanpur crossing where carts selling flowers, fruits and vegetables collect, defying the lacklustre efforts of the municipal corporation to remove them.Another reason for the stalled traffic on this stretch is the buses entering DTC’s depot at Khanpur. The lack of space inside forces buses entering the depot to idle on the road. The ones coming from Ambedkar Nagar in fact frequently block both carriageways of MB Road, causing jams that take an hour to clear.On Mathura Road, a tree is the cause of hindrance to traffic at the New Friend’s Colony crossing. In fact, this spot is a notorious bottleneck created by traffic from the direction of Faridabad merging with traffic coming down the loop of the Modi Mill flyover. Further down near Ashram Chowk, cars illegally parked results in sizeable snarls at peak hours. Also, the asphalt has not been relaid after the construction of the Delhi Metro station, forcing drivers to slow down and drive on the smoother portions, thus causing another tailback.The effort to ease traffic at Chirag Dilli crossing by allowing Saket-bound vehicles coming Savitri Cinema to use a slip road past Masjid Moth seems to have lost its purpose. The slip road is never free of encroachments, and whenever a driver tries to access the BRT corridor, the lack of space results in conflict between the oncoming traffic and slip road users.Vikas Marg is in a similar shambles. It was successfully decongested in a concerted drive by the traffic police and civic agencies, but has reverted to its former pathetic state due to illegal roadside parking by vehicles coming to the markets between Karkari More and Laxmi Nagar. Cars driving into incoming traffic at Laxmi Nagar metro station only add to the mess. And with rickshaws, autos and e-rickshaws congregating at the metro stations, the bedlam can only be imagined.

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