The opening of the 1.4-km stretch of the Ashram flyover extension is giving a lot of relief to the people going from Noida to Delhi. But a week after the opening of this road, another problem has arisen.
In fact, now the speed of traffic coming from Ashram Chowk to DND has increased tremendously. Due to this, the pressure on the Noida loop of DND has increased tremendously. Now the traffic police is planning to widen this loop. Along with this, there is also a plan to divert some traffic towards Noida Sector 16. From where vehicles will take a U turn. The biggest advantage of this would be that the traffic load on the DND flyway would be less.
DND’s loop has shrunk
On March 6, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal opened the Ashram flyover extension to the general public. Its opening eased the traffic load on the three busiest routes of Maharani Bagh, Ring Road-DND Junction and the road leading from Ring Road to Sarai Kale Khan. With the opening of the Ashram flyover, the motorists have also got relief from three traffic lights from Ashram Chowk to DND flyway.
But after crossing the toll plaza, the road leading from DND towards Noida has become more narrow. At present, the DND going towards Noida Sector 16 has shrunk from 8 lanes to 3 lanes. Two loops at this intersection, one connecting Noida’s Sector 14A and Delhi’s Mayur Vihar and another Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, left the road with only two lanes. Which is not enough for the traffic coming from Delhi.
1 lakh vehicles come everyday
Significantly, everyday 1 lakh vehicles from Delhi come to Noida via DND. Apart from this, about 55 thousand vehicles use this route during the weekend. Noida resident Gaurav Kumar says that after the opening of the Ashram flyover, it seems that traffic jams have started happening in Noida. He said that earlier we had to face heavy traffic at Ashram Chowk. Now there is traffic jam on DND Flyvo loop. The authority should take some steps to get rid of this problem.
Due to this increased traffic
DCP Traffic, Gautam Budh Nagar, Anil Kumar Yadav said that more traffic police have been deployed at the DND loop. He said that we are trying every possible solution to get rid of the traffic jam. When the flyover was closed, many people used Chilla Road and Kalindi Kunj Road and avoided coming to DND. But now the passengers passing through there are also using DND. This has increased the traffic pressure in Noida. We are trying to widen the loop here so that the traffic pressure can be relieved.
This is the plan of Noida traffic police
On Monday, Noida Traffic Inspector Ashutosh Singh said that he had visited the DND loop and got an idea of the traffic coming towards Noida. He said that in the evening the traffic of DND mixes with the traffic of Film City, due to which the situation of jam is created. He said that we will ask the commuters to go directly towards Noida Sector 16 from DND. After this, he will be asked to take a U-turn for Film City so that the traffic jam situation on the loop can be dealt with.
