The public works department completed the repair work on one carriageway of the Chirag Dilli flyover on Friday, then partially closed the other carriageway to begin work on it.
On Friday morning, the carriageway under repair the one taking Nehru Place to IIT Delhi was fully opened, providing relief to the thousands of commuters who otherwise are grappling with jams. The closure to facilitate the replacement 16 joint extensions on the flyover had not only immensely slowed down traffic on the road but also affected movement to Chittranjan Park and grater Kailash localities.
There was pressure to complete the work in fewer than the 25 days the repairs were scheduled to take. With PWD minister Atishi monitoring the work daily.
The carriageway had been closed for traffic on March 12.
“The Planning wasn’t proper, and it created a mess for two weeks”, grumbled Chetan Sharma chairman Federation of GK-II complex residents welfare associations. “The stakeholders weren’t consulted before undertaking the repair work.”
From Friday afternoon one of the two lanes of the second carriage away as closed to for their joint extension work, affecting the movement of vehicles from IIT Delhi, Malviya Nagar, Panchsheel Park, Soami Nagar, Gurgaon, IGI Airport. “Usually, it takes 15 minutes to cross this stretch in the evening peak hour, today it took me 1 hour” said a motorist stuck in the jam near Panchsheel Park.