Chaos continues on Noida Link Road after DUAC’s red signal to clover leaves

Soon after DDA handed over the Noida flyover to PWD in 2005,the PWD had announced that three additional clover leaves would be built at the intersection connecting the flyover to the Commonwealth Games Village. As per PWD,the project was to ensure free the flow of traffic on both sides of the Games Village,next to NH-24.

Proposed as a Commonwealth Games project,PWD was to begin work this October; the project was scheduled to be completed before the Games next October.

As per estimates,each of these loops,or clover leaves,will cost approximately Rs 2 crore and hold the key towards segregating traffic on Link Road. As per plans,PWD was to construct a slip road,footpath and bicycle track on the stretch — at a total cost of Rs 88.68 crore.

The proposal however,failed to impress DUAC each time it was tabled since August 2008. In its first meeting — held on August 26,2008 — the Commission observed that the design for the clover leaves needed to be “remodelled” since it did not “represent the real situation of Southeast side,the Samaspur area”.

The DUAC also noted that the design had failed to take into equation peak-hour traffic between Noida Mor and the Games Village towards Ring Road,and that the four lanes available for traffic moving westwards was not enough.

In its most recent meeting,held last month,DUAC considered the revised proposal for the clover leaves and observed that the model and drawings presented did not match with actual site conditions. It also discussed providing a dedicated lane for a left turn from NH-24 to the Noida road. The DUAC members subsequently visited the site,and the report now awaits consideration.