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Transport minister drives on BRT, says traffic has improved

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Posted: Jan 07, 2009 at 0149 hrs IST

New Delhi In an effort to get a “first-hand” experience of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand, newly-appointed Transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely took a ride along the corridor on Tuesday morning.

Deciding to take a ride on his own, without the company of Transport officials, Lovely drove through the corridor around 10 am, during peak rush hour and found that the traffic situation “has improved”. “I wanted to take a look at the corridor, given the amount of criticism our government has faced over it. I drove through the corridor and though there were glitches that I have pointed out to the Transport department, I think the traffic situation has improved since the corridor was first inaugurated,” Lovely said after a meeting with officials from his department and DIMTS.

As an alternative to the current model of the BRT, the government is now experimenting with a pilot project of extending the BRT from Moolchand to Delhi Gate, with the bus lane on the extreme left. While construction is still on, officials claimed that nearly 60 per cent has been completed.

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modify timings at Chiragdilli crossing by Virendra Razdan on 16 Feb 2009

I do not agree with above today I had to go to Saket today at 9.10AM and I found crossing at Chiragdelhi outer Ring Road has taken toll of half day salary by giving green light for 30seconds in the interval of atleast 3minutes ,took 8minutes to cross that Red light in the population of only 20vehicles ahead on the outer Ringroad crossing coming through Moolchand .

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