Flyover on expressway helps ease traffic on Hero Honda Chowk

Traffic movement on the busy Hero Honda Chowk on the Delhi-Gurugram expressway was eased on Friday evening after authorities opened a flyover for motorists coming from Jaipur to Delhi and vice versa, an official said.

On Friday, Gurugram received as much as 27 mm rain. Apprehensive of a repeat of last July's traffic logjam, the authorities on Friday late evening opened the flyover with sharing two-two carriageways each (on the Delhi-Jaipur stretch).

The flyover, being built by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been functioning for the last almost a month.

Fearing huge traffic jam on NH-8, authorities were forced to share carriageways on the flyover.

The 8-lane flyover from Delhi to Jaipur has been opened for both the lanes. Two lanes have been reserved for the traffic coming from Jaipur heading towards Delhi, and similarly for the traffic coming from Delhi to Jaipur.

This helped ease the traffic management.

"There has been 324 mm rain in the last 10 days and the administration is fully prepared to tackle it," a senior official told IANS.

Over 1,200 policemen and traffic volunteers have been deployed on the expressway and important parts of the city to prevent a logjam like on July 28 last year, when hundreds of commuters were stuck on the national highway and main roads of the city after an hour-long spell of rain.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday assured that there will not be traffic jams as the Badshapur drain, which was one of the main cause of water-logging, is being widened.

--IANS

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