SPEAK UP: Traffic woes do not cease on BRT corridor even after its demolition

The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor has been a perfect example of poor planning and road engineering leading to a traffic mess and being largely accident-prone. The corridor built in 2008 at the cost of Rs 180 crore, ahead of the Commonwealth Games by the Sheila Dikshit government was opposed by experts even then. Years later, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP promised to get rid of the corridor. However, the dismantling work taken up by the Public Works Department under his government has received flak for doing a shoddy job. The AAP government scrapped the corridor at a cost of around Rs 11 crore.

Earlier this week, Delhi LG Anil Baijal sought a detailed report from the Delhi government. The LG wrote to the transport commissioner asking if they followed the laid down procedures in dismantling the corridor.

The 6.13 km stretch from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand in South Delhi, which was initially built to reduce travel time and ease traffic movement, turned out to be a traffic mess instead.

However, post-dismantling, it still remains chaotic. The road has been left uneven at different patches while the turns are not marked, resulting in bottlenecks and choking of traffic.

The area still remains accident-prone in the …read more