{"id":313987,"date":"2019-07-13T03:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313987"},"modified":"2019-07-13T03:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T03:01:15","slug":"new-delhi-union-minister-nitin-gadkari-inaugurates-3-lane-underpass-at-parade-road-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/new-delhi-union-minister-nitin-gadkari-inaugurates-3-lane-underpass-at-parade-road-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates 3 lane underpass at parade road junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313988 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari.jpg 701w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari-696x525.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/nitin-gadkari-557x420.jpg 557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday inaugurated a three-lane underpass at Parade Road junction near Manekshaw Centre on NH 8 in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With opening of this underpass, movement of traffic from Airport to Dhaula Kuan would become signal free. The underpass was completed in a record time of 112 days and is part of NHAI\u2019s project for development of a signal free corridor from Dhaula Kuan interchange to IGI Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">National Highway No.8 (New NH-48) is the prime link providing connectivity to IGI Airport from Delhi and NCR. The frequent traffic jams in the corridor result in travel time of 10-30 minutes in crossing the3 kms stretch between Dhaula Kuan interchange and the Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To tackle this problem, NHAI has taken up the development of a signal free corridor from Dhaula Kuan interchange to Airport at an estimated cost of Rs.270 crore.\u00a0 The project includes widening of Dhaula Kuan \u2013 IGI corridor from 6-lanes to 8-lanes a three-lane flyover from Janakpuri road to merge with NH-8, the three-lane vehicular underpass at Parade Road junction that was inaugurated today, 3 PUPs, 2 VUPs and an FOB for pedestrians. The work on the project commenced in March 2018 and is now 75 % complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The project has huge challenges in terms of traffic management of about 3 lakhs PCUs per day, presence of a large number of civil and defence utilities, shifting of defence infrastructure and getting security clearances.\u00a0 The work plan for the project was prioritized with the objective of providing early relief to the commuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This project would be in addition to the nine other projects being implemented for decongesting NCR Delhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday inaugurated a three-lane underpass at Parade Road junction near Manekshaw Centre on NH 8 in New Delhi. With opening of this underpass, movement of traffic from Airport to Dhaula Kuan would become signal free. The underpass was completed in a record time of 112 days and is part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[11620,429,4027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313989,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313987\/revisions\/313989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}