Chandigarh goes for a ring road project

Ensuring smooth flow of vehicular traffic, the UT of Chandigarh administration has proposed to construct a ring road around the city helping preventing around 1.5 lakh vehicles from Punjab and Haryana entering the city daily, administrator VP Singh Badnore said claiming that he would soon held meeting with representatives of both the neighboring states to finalize the proposal very shortly. UT home secretary Anurag Aggarwal said if the project proceeds according to the plan, traffic congestion on the arterial roads — Madhya Marg and Dakshin Marg — will be significantly reduced. Chandigarh has become a thoroughfare and traffic has become one of the major civic issues. City-based architect Surinder Bahga said the city's Master Plan has already proposed this road to divert interstate traffic around the city for better traffic management. According to the Master Plan committee, traffic between Mullanpur and Panchkula and from Kansal, Zirakpur and Panchkula is headed to Chandigarh for no reason. The proposed ring road is likely to be linked to the expressway project by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) near Mullanpur and Banur.

Published: 24 August 2017