GDA goes for 5-km long elevated road corridor

In an attempt to ease traffic congestion at Raj Nagar Extension, the Ghaziabad Development Authority has decided to build an elevated road stretch to link the Hindon Elevated Road with the Northern Peripheral Expressway bypassing the main city. According to official sources, GDA has already acquired 16 hectares for the proposed road and is in talks with farmers in Shahpur village for acquiring the remaining portion of land for the construction of the proposed road project. Once ready, the road link will benefit those travelling to Delhi as they can skirt the traffic snarls at Raj Nagar Extension and head to the capital through Loni and Raj Nagar Extension. The link road will take off before the Extension and pass through villages like Morti and Shahpur on the west of the elevated road to meet Northern Peripheral Expressway. A link road connecting the Hindon Elevated Road with the Northern Peripheral Expressway has been mentioned in our zonal plan. Once the elevated road opened to vehicular traffic, there would be massive traffic jams at Raj Nagar Extension, said chief architect and town planner in the GDA, Ishtiyaque Ahmad and the proposed link road is aimed at solving this problem, he insisted.