Public Works Department pitches new plan for Rao Tula Marg.

The Public Works Department (PWD) recently told the Delhi High Court that if the demand made by Vasant Vihar residents to demolish the Rao Tula Ram Marg flyover and construct a new one is accepted, the Outer Ring Road will have to be 'closed for almost three years'.

Simultaneously, the agency put forth an extensive plan to create two new flyovers, an underpass and an extensive tunnel system to connect NH8 via the IIT gate to the Delhi Cantonment area, proposing to complete the project within two years.

The plan, presented to the Delhi High Court bench of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul on Tuesday by PWD and RITES, includes a parallel three-lane flyover to the RTR, an underpass and right turn opening at Benito Juárez Marg. Also included is an extensive tunnel from Shiv Murti near Westend apartments on NH8. The tunnel will go under NH8 and join a new road starting from Ryan International School on the Vasant Kunj-Mahipalpur road. The flyover and underpass projects, according to PWD counsel Ferida Satarawala, will be constructed 'simultaneously', while the the Mahipalpur bypass, which will allow movement of traffic from Nelson Mandela Marg to the Delhi-
Gurgaon border, will be handled as a separate project.

Residents' welfare associations from Vasant Vihar and Vasant Enclave had approached the Delhi High Court against the PWD’s decision to build a three-lane flyover parallel to RTR flyover, and demanded that the existing flyover be demolished.

THE INDIAN EXPRESS