Bypass till Gomti Nagar Extension to be ready by Dec

India (NHAI) officials,only a railway overbridge will be left,which will also be completed by March 2011.

A 14-km stretch of this four-lane highway has been completed and is open for traffic between Kanpur Road and Sultanpur Road.

It provides a diversion to long-distance traffic in the direction of Kanpur and Rae Bareli,without entering the city. A 2-km stretch between Chinhat trisection to Husandiya crossing in Gomti Nagar is also operational.

“Work on the remaining 6-km stretch in between will be completed by December. Bitumen work has been completed and strengthening of road and construction of four underpasses is in progress. The under construction RoB in Gomti Nagar area will take some more time,but the entire project will be completed in March,” said C M Dwivedi,Manager (Technical),NHAI.

“When the highway gets operational up to the Gomti Nagar Extension,commuters can use the service and zonal roads developed by the Lucknow Development Authority to reach Gomti Nagar,Indira Nagar and Faizabad Road,” said an official. Also,long-distance traffic from and to Faizabad will get a diversion and avoid entering the city.

The Amar Shaheed Path project is running almost six years behind schedule. The contract of the Rs 158 crore-project was awarded to Prakash-Atlanta in 2001. The firm had to complete it by 2004. When it failed to complete the project even after repeated extensions,the NHAI terminated the contract in March 2008 and appointed NKG Infrastructure to complete the project.

Almost 80 per cent work has been completed. The cost of the project has since gone up to Rs 270 crore,said Dwivedi.