Government gives timeline in Supreme Court to fix bottlenecks

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Thursday informed the Supreme Court about the timeline for removal of traffic bottlenecks at 77 “congested corridors” and said short term measures, like minor improvements in road geometrics to deal with the issue would take six to eight months.

Elaborating the measures for removing these bottlenecks, the AAP government said these have been categorised as “short term” and “long term” measures and also gave reasons for traffic congestion in the national capital.

In its affidavit filed in the top court, the Delhi government said that under the long-term measures, six months time would be taken for approval of schemes and sanction of estimates for construction of subways, underpasses and u-turns and after grant of approval, another 12 months would be needed for execution of work.

“The short term measures like minor improvements in road geometri-cs would take six to eight months. However the long term measures like underpass would take six months for approval of the scheme... Therea-fter, 12 months for execution after approval,” the affidavit said.  

Advocate Wasim A Qadri, appearing for the Delhi government, mentioned the matter today before a bench comprising justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta and said that they be allowed to file the affidavit.

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