Despite CMs promise, work on BRT continues

  • 01/05/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

Angry over the mess in the BRT corridor and the mounting opposition to it in an election year, CM Sheila Dikshit had announced that work on the rest of the stretch and the other proposed five corridors would be discontinued till the glitches were removed from the pilot stretch. But commuters who daily emerge bruised and battered from the pilot stretch have been increasingly feeling dismayed by the work on the rest of the stretch that shows no signs of being called off. This is particularly evident at ITO, where harassed office-goers, squeezed out of parking space, find work going on even in the dead of night with excavators throwing up a dust haze right in the middle of the road. The pavements have already been worked upon, reducing parking space, and now drains are being built. On Wednesday evening, when the IPL match led to massive congestion on this stretch, some digging work was on near the Khooni Darwaza traffic signal, making the situation worse. Work also continued near Defence Colony with the PWD work on the rail bridge adding to the traffic woes. A drain being constructed along Kotla Road is still dug up and barricades put up in the middle of Mathura Road, near the Zoo crossing, are yet to be removed. Contractors told to stop work New Delhi: Angry over the mess in the BRT corridor, transport minister Haroon Yusuf insists that no work is going on in the stretch between Moolchand and Delhi Gate.