Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, June 22: The Andaman Public Works Department has started necessary works for the construction of Port Blair city’s first ‘Four- Lane Road’, which is much awaiting good news for the people of these Islands.
Construction of four-lane road will however ease congestion along Dairy Farm to Bhathu Basthi and will also be a great boost for future developments.
To alleviate the congestion currently experienced along the city during peak hours and to cater to expected growth in future traffic demand, the Andaman Public Works Department (APWD) will construct a four-lane road from Dairy Farm to Bhathu Basthi.
The construction work of the new road has already started and the retaining wall and two culvert works has already been completed.
Today, with increased traffic, road experiences heavier traffic than before, especially during the morning and evening peak hours and the first four-lane of these islands is definitely a good start and slowly through this initiatives the city is believed to be free of traffic congestion in near future.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha recently, the Executive Engineer, SAD, Er H M Lingaraju gave some details about the four-lane road. He said that each lane will be of 3.75 meters with one meter central median, the total width of the road is 20 meters and the length of the road is 3.54 kilometers i.e from Dairy Farm Utkrosh Gate to Bhathu Basthi.
“The work for the four-lane road is under process and widening will be taken up shortly,” Er Lingaraju said.
Further he added that after the construction of the four-lane road, there is a planning for construction of a cycle track in the second phase of the project i.e 1.2 meters on both the sides.
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