NOIDA: The 195-metre 2nd U-turn being built under the DND loop wearing site visitors from Delhi exiting for Noida sectors 15A and 16A, can be in a position by May-end. However, the U-turn is more likely to pose a couple of challenges to commuters right through the day, especially throughout peak hours.
The U-turn, being seen as an try to please Sector 15A citizens, who whinge of getting to force down a protracted technique to flip back for going to Mayur Vihar, is being built at a cost of just about Rs 40 lakh.
According to mavens, commuters who avail the U-turn will end up stalling site visitors coming from Delhi on the different carriageway, which anyway strikes at snail’s pace throughout peak hours. They will even stall site visitors from Sector 15A going towards Greater Noida by causing a jam on the U-turn.
The building work for the U-turn began a couple of metres ahead of the primary DND loop after a rite on February four wherein Noida Authority officers and Union minister Dr Mahesh Sharma had participated.
A fact take a look at on Wednesday discovered incoming site visitors drawing near the U-turn on the Noida-Delhi carriageway slowing down. As commuters slow down, they tend to move towards their left the place a patch of the road has been widened to facilitate site visitors movement.
However, the similar isn't conceivable on the different facet however as soon as the U-turn is in a position, commuters from two aspects can be the use of it most commonly.
One can be the ones commuters coming from Sector 15A who need to shuttle towards Delhi and 2nd can be the ones coming down from the DND loop on the Delhi-Noida carriageway who need to shuttle towards Sector 14A or Mayur Vihar.
A site visitors police officer told TOI that these commuters would go over to the other carriageway disrupting site visitors. “During peak hours, this may increasingly create a bottleneck for the ones travelling instantly whilst throughout customary hours, when site visitors strikes at an excessively fast pace, this may well be bad,” said the officer.
Anurag Kulsreshtha, president, TRAX, an NGO working for road protection, told TOI that the U-turn is supposed just for citizens of Sector 15A and not for common public.
It can be very bad within the night time, and particularly when heavy automobiles like buses and trucks attempt to use it, he said.
“The lane may be very slender for any such U-turn. At any such link road, the place you cannot slow down, if buses attempt to use the U-turn, they're going to stall site visitors coming from behind. And you cannot keep watch over them in any such heavy site visitors. Further, at night time, the U-turn can pose extra risk when visibility is low and automobiles start taking U-turns from right here,” he said.
Sandeep Chandra, incharge, Noida site visitors cell, told TOI that the Authority has spent a considerable sum of money on the U-turn and will not go back on the idea.
“An over-head barrier can be installed so that buses and trucks can not input,” he said.
The U-turn, being seen as an try to please Sector 15A citizens, who whinge of getting to force down a protracted technique to flip back for going to Mayur Vihar, is being built at a cost of just about Rs 40 lakh.
According to mavens, commuters who avail the U-turn will end up stalling site visitors coming from Delhi on the different carriageway, which anyway strikes at snail’s pace throughout peak hours. They will even stall site visitors from Sector 15A going towards Greater Noida by causing a jam on the U-turn.
The building work for the U-turn began a couple of metres ahead of the primary DND loop after a rite on February four wherein Noida Authority officers and Union minister Dr Mahesh Sharma had participated.
A fact take a look at on Wednesday discovered incoming site visitors drawing near the U-turn on the Noida-Delhi carriageway slowing down. As commuters slow down, they tend to move towards their left the place a patch of the road has been widened to facilitate site visitors movement.
However, the similar isn't conceivable on the different facet however as soon as the U-turn is in a position, commuters from two aspects can be the use of it most commonly.
One can be the ones commuters coming from Sector 15A who need to shuttle towards Delhi and 2nd can be the ones coming down from the DND loop on the Delhi-Noida carriageway who need to shuttle towards Sector 14A or Mayur Vihar.
A site visitors police officer told TOI that these commuters would go over to the other carriageway disrupting site visitors. “During peak hours, this may increasingly create a bottleneck for the ones travelling instantly whilst throughout customary hours, when site visitors strikes at an excessively fast pace, this may well be bad,” said the officer.
Anurag Kulsreshtha, president, TRAX, an NGO working for road protection, told TOI that the U-turn is supposed just for citizens of Sector 15A and not for common public.
It can be very bad within the night time, and particularly when heavy automobiles like buses and trucks attempt to use it, he said.
“The lane may be very slender for any such U-turn. At any such link road, the place you cannot slow down, if buses attempt to use the U-turn, they're going to stall site visitors coming from behind. And you cannot keep watch over them in any such heavy site visitors. Further, at night time, the U-turn can pose extra risk when visibility is low and automobiles start taking U-turns from right here,” he said.
Sandeep Chandra, incharge, Noida site visitors cell, told TOI that the Authority has spent a considerable sum of money on the U-turn and will not go back on the idea.
“An over-head barrier can be installed so that buses and trucks can not input,” he said.
U-turn near DND loop may create snarls
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