VIII. TRANSPORT Schemes under the sector envisage construction widening and improvement of various roads improvements of intersection, providing street lighting, cycle tracks, grade separators at intersections and construction/ widening of bridges on various roads, over river Yamuna and other drains in Delhi and constructions of subways etc. to facilitate free flow of traffic in Delhi. Under road Transport Programs of Transport Department major schemes are Construction of ISBTs, Mass Rapid Transit System, Regional Rail Network (IRBT), Rationalisation and Revival of DTC, computerisation of Records of Transport Department and High Capacity Bus System / Electric Trolly Buses. The agency wise approved outlay for the 9th Five Year Plan 1997-02 and expenditure, approved outlay for the 10th Five Year Plan 2002-07. Annual Plan 2002-03 expenditure, annual plan 2003-04 approved outlay and expenditure; approved outlay for the Annual Plan 2004-05 are given in the following table: - (Rs. in Lakh) SN Agency 9th Five Exp. 10th FYP Exp. Annual Planning Annual Year Plan (Tentative) 2002-07 during 2003-04 Plan 1997-2002 Approved 2002-03 2004-05 Approved Outlay Approved Outlay Approved Exp. Outlay Outlay 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1. PWD (i) (Road & 116005.00 62849.97 187280.00 17886.17 22500.00 18196.75 16500.00 Bridge) (ii) CRF 356.57 5000.00 2. TYADB (PWD) 2200.00 2384.19 1500.00 258.22 235.00 155.84 260.00 3. MCD (1) Plan 50135.00 39350.00 6000.00 8550.00 9500.00 9000.00 7500.00 (2)CRF 500.00 2500.00 4. NDMC 2500.00 1270.00 2000.00 175.00 400.00 642.00 500.00 5. Transport 145000.00 120215.06 293891.00 39641.35 63788.00 32658.23 84435.00 Dept., Total 315840.00 226069.22544671.00 66510.74 96423.00 61509.39 116695.00 252 Physical achievements during 9th Five Year Plan The following projects were completed during the 9th five Year Plan (a) Flyover Agency No. of Name / Location flyovers completed PWD 4 Moti Bagh, Africa Avenue, Savitri Cinema and Nehru Place. DDA 4 Sarita Vihar, Nelsan Mandela Marg, Jail Road and Wazirpur Depot. MCD 2 Pul methai and Grade separator on Najafgarh- Jail road intersection of Tilak Nagar DTTDC 2 Raja Garden and Peera Gorhi (b) Subways Agency No. of Name / location Subways PWD 3 Munirka, GTB Nagar, Swami Nagar MCD 4 Rampura Crossing, Kirti Nagar,Tilak Nagar (Najafgarh Road) & Netaji subhash Marg. NDMC 6 253 Achievement during 2002-03 AND 2003-04 (a) Flyovers Agency Nos Name / Location A.P. 2002-03 A.P.2003-04 PWD Completed – 1 Punjabi Bagh Flyover AIIMS & Mayapuri Nearing Andrew Ganj Flyover Dhaula Kuan Flyover & completion – 4 Safdarjung Flyover Britania Chowk Dhaula Kuan Flyover Maa Anand Mayee Marg, Mayapuri Flyover Khelgaon Marg B-Avenue, ROB on MB Road DDA Completed – 1 Vikas Marg-Road Wazirabad Road-Road No-66 No-57. Ring Road NH -24 By Pass NH 24 By Pass near Gazipur Fright Complex. Completion – 2 Wazirabad Road – NH-24 Noida More Road No.66, NH-24- NOIDA More MRTS Phase-I (a) Financial:- I) Revised project cost (at August, 1998 prices)-Rs 6251 crore. II) Estimated cost of completion--Rs. 10571 crore III) Expenditure up to March 2004 –5886.87 crore. (B) Physical:- I) Tis Hazari corridor of MRTS has been opened for traffic from 24th December, 2002. II) Tis-Hazari- Tri Nagar on 30th September 2003. III)Tri Nagar – Ritahala stretch on 31-03-2004. 254 Target date for commissioning of other corridors / section are as under:- Name of Section Target Date of commissioning Rithala-Barwala Kept on held Barakhamba Road-Kirti Nagar June , 2005. Vishwavidhyalaya -ISBT 31st December, 2004 ISBT- Central Sectetariat 30th September, 2005 Kirti Nagar-Dwaraka September, 2005. Phase-II The following corridors have been identified for taking up under MRTS phase-II as priority corridors SN Name of Corridor Distance 1. Delhi University-Jahangir Puri 6.59 Km 2. Central Secretariat – Qutab Minar 10.97 Km 3. Indraprastha – Yamuna Depot – New Ashok 9.20 Km Nagar via Mayur Vihar Phase – I, Glaxo and East End Apartment Besides the above, the following major projects are proposed to be taken up during 10th Five Year Plan including Annual Plan 2004-05 1. Regional Rail Network. 2. Construction of new ISBT at Dwarka and Narela; Development work of ISBT Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar. 3. Restructuring of DTC. 4. High capacity Bus system / Electric Trolley Buses. 5. Setting up of Delhi unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (DUMTA) / UMTA. 6. Development of parking lots. I. PWD Regular / maintenance and upgradation of any structure are essential needs alongwith their regular use. Roads network is also one of such structure which 255 particularly, in Delhi, are subjected to excessive heavy loading due to high traffic density and mixed nature of traffic. Thus their regular upkeep is also essential which is maintained in phases. Delhi PWD is responsible for construction and maintenance of district roads of Delhi. The total length of roads under the control of PWD is 318.37km which is equivalent to 2155.63 Km lane length i/c Service Road . This excludes the master plan roads which are to be constructed in Narela Sub-city, by PWD In addition, service road measuring 153 Km which are mostly along Ring Road, Outer Ring Road & some other M.P. Roads are under the control of PWD . For more effective management of physical and financial progress, provisions were made in 10th Five Year Plan 2002-07 for Rs 188780 lakh, out of which some of the road portions have been upgraded in previous years of 10th Five Year Plan through Annual Plan 2002-03 & 2003-04. In order to maintain PWD roads in a systematic way, keeping in view their importance and necessity, the roads have been divided under 5 categories as under :- 1 Ring Road 2 Outer Ring Road 3 Trans Yamuna Roads 4 Rohini Roads 5 Other Roads For the consecutive upgradation of roads in phases, details of various schemes proposed to be taken up during the Annual plan 2004-05 with total provision of Rs. 21760 lakh under categories enumerated above are detailed as under. Ring Road(Rs. 1490.00 Lakhs) Ring Road is life line of Delhi Transport system . This is about 52.76km long with six lane divided dual carriageway having 283km . lane length and it runs through the heart of the city. In addition, 45km long service road exists along Ring Road with equivalent of 90km lane length. Thus total lane length of Ring Road inclusive of service road is 373 km. It is the busiest road and carries the maximum volume of traffic. All the five National Highways passing through Delhi namely, NH-I, NH-2, NH-8, NH-10 & NH- 24 start from this road. 256 It is proposed to take up the work of Ring Road from 6 lanes to 8 lanes as recommended in the corridor improvement study of Ring Road by M/s Craphts Consultant. The total lane length of 22.4km is proposed to be widened. Total provision for Rs.1490.00 lakh is made for Ring Road which include mainly strengthening of Ring Road from Rajghat to Wazirpur Depot via Ashram ( which is in progress). Schemes are divided in stretches as under:- Raj Ghat to Punjabi Bagh flyover via ISBT. Total length of this portion of Ring Road is 20.38Km with 118.50Km lane length & 45.9Km lane length service road. The major portion of this stretch is strengthened during last two years. Portions from Rajghat to Wazirabad are proposed to be taken up during Annual plan 2004-05. Provision has also been made for other works such as construction of footpath drainage, microsurfacing, etc. Punjabi Bagh to Safdarjung:- Widening of this stretch from 6 lane to 8 lane between Punjabi Bagh to Raja Garden, Raja Garden to Dhaula Kua & then Dhaula Kua to Safdarjung is taken up. Safdarjung to Rajghat: - This part of Ring Road is 13.60 km and extends from Safdarjung to Rajghat. It has got six lanes divided carriage way and footpath and service road in parts. Some portion covers VIP route also. For the improvement some provision has been made as under :- It is proposed to take up the following misc. works during 2004-05 on entire Ring Road. (i) Improvement of planter at Ring Road Ph-V Azadpur Jn. to Road No.41. (ii) Beautification of planters of Ring Road, Ph-V. SH:- P/F M.S. Railing. (iii) Improvement of service road of Ring Road Ph-V from W.P. Depot to Britannia Chowk (iv) C/o ramp from Ring Road Ph-V to Punjabi Bagh ROB. (v) Improvement of flyover at intersection of Ring Road and Road No.41. 257 (vi) Improvement of central verge for VIP route from Bhairon Marg to Rajghat. (vii) Providing and fixing road signages on Ring Road and Outer Ring Road. (viii) Signages on flyovers. Total provision for above main & misc. works is taken for Rs 980 lakh under Ongoing schemes and Rs. 510 under New Schemes. Provision of Rs. 510 lakh includes some minor improvement works costing less than Rs. 50 lakh for which provision of Rs. 100 lakh has been made under “schemes to be identified “. Outer Ring Road (Rs. 510.00 Lakh) This is the second important road carrying heavy to very heavy traffic for most of its length. At present the length of outer ring road is 29.20 km (lane length of 175.6 km & service road 63.6 km) which comprises of Road No.6, 7, 8, 10 and 26.