Roundabouts planned on overbridge in Vadodara

Sources said though the civic body has taken a decision on this,the Traffic Department of the Vadodara police will provide inputs at the end of the project,following which the final specifications and design will be decided. The bridge was designed after VMC had decided to ease the traffic congestion between Lalbaug and Manjalpur. The project is funded under the JNNURM scheme and is estimated at Rs 45.72 crore. Construction work started in 2009 and officials have maintained it will take another year for completion.

“The design of the bridge is such that we had to include a traffic circle. We realised that the traffic coming from Vishwamitri Bridge and Palace Road will meet at one point and there are chances that the vehicles would move at high speed. Therefore,monitoring the traffic flow is of utmost importance,” Executive Engineer P M Patel (Bridge Cell) told The Indian Express. The length of the bridge towards Kashivishwanath temple will be around 374.7 m,and 382.41 m towards the Pratapnagar side. From Vishwamitri Bridge,it will be 371.59 m and towards the Makarpura side it will be around 384.84 m.

Apurva Parikh,director of the Multimedia Consultants Private Limited,said: “We have a similar bridge in Ahmedabad at Kalupur,but this becomes the only bridge in the state to have two traffic circles. We had to include the circles as we had to consider the traffic flow coming from different directions. As far as accidents are concerned,we will be putting proper barricades and also traffic signages.”