Work on flyovers likely to begin in Ghaziabad soon

The construction work for two proposed flyovers in Ghaziabad is likely to begin next month.

The flyovers are to built at the Raj Nagar Extension Crossing along Ghaziabad-Meerut Road, which was earlier a part of NH-58, and at the Vasundhara Traffic Signal on the Vaishali-Mohan Nagar Link Road.

GDA officials on May 30 said design work of the flyovers, which is being executed by the UP State Bridge Corporation, is nearing completion. In March 2016, the GDA had asked the bridge corporation to submit the detailed project reports for the projects. No deadline, however, had been set upon the corporation for finalizing the project reports. 

"The alignments of both flyovers have been fixed," said GDA executive engineer S C Dwivedi. "The agency has completed soil testing of the areas where the flyovers will be constructed. More such tests will be conducted, if required. We are expecting reports from the agency soon. Work on the two projects might commence before the last week of June," he said.

The projects have been mulled to ease flow of traffic at the two intersections. The GDA sanctioned them on the basis of reports on traffic volume on the roads, compiled by the Central Road Research Institute.

GDA officials said the exact cost of the projects would be worked out based on the detailed project reports.

In a board meeting held in October last year, the GDA had approved construction of three flyovers. The third flyover is proposed to be constructed at Hapur Chungi.

Source: MagicBricks