An elevated road for North Delhi residents to reach airport faster

While it has become relatively much easier for Delhi residents to get to the Indira Gandhi International Airport because of Delhi Metro’s dedicated airport metro, it takes the residents of North Delhi a lot of time to travel to IGIA. To tackle this situation, the Delhi government has proposed that a 29 km long elevated road be constructed between Wazirabad and IGIA, which would reduce travel time taken by North Delhi residents to around half an hour.

The plan, which was presented before LG Anil Baijal, has got a go-ahead by the lieutenant governor. He has directed Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre, the concerned authority, to approve the Rs 6,000crore project at the earliest.

As per PWD minister Satyender Jain, the north-south corridor will be partly constructed over the Najafgarh drain and would reduce travel time from two hours to 30 minutes. While most of it would be elevated, it would also have a 6-km long tunnel between Zakhira and Pankha Road.

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