Can we look at the REAL LONG TERM SOLUTIONS for Decongesting South Delhi ?

From: Romi Roy 

Date: 6 April 2013 11:53
Subject: Long term Decongestion Plan for South Delhi - Can we look at the REAL LONG TERM SOLUTIONS ?
To: Sh. Raj Kumar Chauhan (Hon'ble PWD Minister) <aplandb.delhi@nic.in>, Tejendra Khanna (Hon'ble Lt Governer of Delhi)<ltgov@nic.in>
Cc: Hon'ble Chief Minister of Delhi , Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic),  OSD to LG, Dainik Jagran, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Shakti Foundation, Anumita Roychoudhury (Exec. Director CSE), Rajendra Ravi (Social Entrepreneur and Activist), Sunita Narayran (CSE), Principal Secretary PWD, Engineer-in-Chief PWD, Principal Secy UD, OSD (Urban Transport, MOUD), Asst. Professor Sushant School, Anjlee Aggarwal (Samarthyam), Commissioner Planning DDA, Director Environment GNCTD, Chairman of Delhi Urban Arts Commission.

SUBJECT: Ref: Hindu Article Today about Decongestion Plan for South Delhi proposed by PWD and Approved by UTTIPEC.

Dear Respected Sirs - 

Please forgive our humble question to you Sir - but do you think that a few more flyovers and underpasses will be the solution to Decongesting South Delhi ? (attached article from Hindu today)

Sir, please kindly consider our prediction - Outer Ring Road will be MORE JAMMED and MORE DAMAGED by these "solutions" within three years, and people of Vasant Vihar etc will not be able to move/go anywhere. And neither will Delhi-Gurgaon's long-distance commuters! And at that time, with all these damaging scars on the area already implemented on ground, it will be impossible to retrofit the area back into a better place which works for both - locals and thoroughfare commuters.

LONG TERM REAL SOLUTION: Sir, Please kindly see attached Map explaining the long term solutions. 

Sir, if minor retrofits are done at ORR/RTR as previously proposed by RITES, and the NEW alternative routes are constructed from the Airport + Gurgaon to go to South Delhi, East Delhi and Noida, then more than half the traffic load on Outer Ring Road (ORR) would reduce. Sir, please kindly consider building the NEW ZONAL PLAN ROADS as demarcated in this attached Plan, so that long term problems of the City can be solved/ eased and not just band-aid solutions which we all know will not work beyond 2-3 years.

NOTE:

Sir, East Delhi has three times the Population Density of South Delhi. But they have NO mortal traffic jams and hardly any accidents. And hardly any Rapes! Sir can we understand why ??

It is because East Delhi has a good Road Network density where people have multiple routes to go to the same place. There is also mixed-use. People have abundant other options for travel like cycle-rickshaws, walking and buses, for short local trips to the market, cinema hall, post office, bank, etc.  The only location where deaths and traffic jams have NOW STARTED happening is near Gazipur roundabout, AFTER the grade separators were constructed there!! People are complaining about it, but no one hears them, because only respected Engineers are the sole advisers to decision makers; No planners, designers, sociologists or environmentalists exist in the Decision making forums.

In the attached article, the Hon'ble Minister Sh. R K Chauhan himself says!! - ".....construction of three flyovers on Ring Road had failed to solve the problem of persistent traffic jams in the area...."

What more can we say Sir?

With warm regards,

Romi Roy 

on behalf of UTTIPEC Team

Dy. Director (Arch.), Delhi Development Authority
Spl. Invitee, Masterplan Review Committee under LG, Delhi

Member, High Court Special Task Force on Transportation & Vendor Policy under CS, Delhi

Member, Technical Committee on Urban Drainage, GNCTD, Delhi

Spl. Invitee, LAP Monitoring Committee, MCD Delhi

Member, Sub-Committee on Sustainable Habitat, MOUD

Member, Several Committees of the Indian Road Congress

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