KOLKATA: Thousands who travelled alongside VIP Road had a harrowing time for most a part of Monday when the Bidhannagar commissionerate shut down 3 lanes each on either flank at Sreebhumi that brought about a snarl as much as 6-km long.
The closure from Sunday night time used to be meant to check the waters forward of a more challenging three-month shutdown to build an underpass at Golaghata. But the experiment left 1000's exasperated with some commuters caught for so long as four hours.
Schoolstudents missed categories, administrative center goers reported late, sufferers had been caught in ambulances and buses may barely transfer because the tail of the snarl reached Kaikhali, choking all the city-bound flank. The earlier night time, the jam on the reverse flank had reached Ultadanga despite it being a low-traffic day.
“This is an entire mess. It took over two hours for me to come to Lake Town from Kaikhali,” stated Jayanta Chakraborty, who used to be heading to town for paintings. Baguiati resident Surabhi Chowdhury, who used to be heading to Sealdah to drop her daughter to college, stated: “Nothing has been shifting on the highway. My daughter is late to college and I will’t even flip my automotive again and head house.”
Facing criticism, the poice forced PWD to offload the plan to close down six lanes of VIP Road at one go to complete the underpass ahead of the Puja and undertake a more conservative plan of shutting down the street on one flank at atime. “We have scrapped the experiment and are setting up a brand new site visitors plan,” stated Amit Javalgi, the deputy commissioner (headquarter) of Bidhannagar City Police.
Another officer stated the revised plan would make certain that city-bound site visitors had four-five lanes to be had in the morning and site visitors in opposite route as many lanes in the night time. “We have decided to complete the underpass in two stages. The airport-bound flank will first be closed to site visitors. But the provider highway will stay open. From late afternoon, one half of the city-bound flank can also be thrown open for airport-bound site visitors,” stated a senior PWD reputable.
Once the airport-bound portion of the underpass is ready, PWD will shift to the city-bound flank and will replicate the same structure. Work on the underpass will start on Wednesday or Thursday.
The closure from Sunday night time used to be meant to check the waters forward of a more challenging three-month shutdown to build an underpass at Golaghata. But the experiment left 1000's exasperated with some commuters caught for so long as four hours.
Schoolstudents missed categories, administrative center goers reported late, sufferers had been caught in ambulances and buses may barely transfer because the tail of the snarl reached Kaikhali, choking all the city-bound flank. The earlier night time, the jam on the reverse flank had reached Ultadanga despite it being a low-traffic day.
“This is an entire mess. It took over two hours for me to come to Lake Town from Kaikhali,” stated Jayanta Chakraborty, who used to be heading to town for paintings. Baguiati resident Surabhi Chowdhury, who used to be heading to Sealdah to drop her daughter to college, stated: “Nothing has been shifting on the highway. My daughter is late to college and I will’t even flip my automotive again and head house.”
Facing criticism, the poice forced PWD to offload the plan to close down six lanes of VIP Road at one go to complete the underpass ahead of the Puja and undertake a more conservative plan of shutting down the street on one flank at atime. “We have scrapped the experiment and are setting up a brand new site visitors plan,” stated Amit Javalgi, the deputy commissioner (headquarter) of Bidhannagar City Police.
Another officer stated the revised plan would make certain that city-bound site visitors had four-five lanes to be had in the morning and site visitors in opposite route as many lanes in the night time. “We have decided to complete the underpass in two stages. The airport-bound flank will first be closed to site visitors. But the provider highway will stay open. From late afternoon, one half of the city-bound flank can also be thrown open for airport-bound site visitors,” stated a senior PWD reputable.
Once the airport-bound portion of the underpass is ready, PWD will shift to the city-bound flank and will replicate the same structure. Work on the underpass will start on Wednesday or Thursday.
Blocked flanks trigger 6km snarl on VIP Road
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