Long waiting time delays BRT launch
If you take the Josip Broz Tito Marg to office or home, prepare for endless delays at traffic intersections. And there are nine intersections on the 5.8 km long Bus Rapid Transit corridor (BRT) itself. Originally slated to open on Tuesday, the BRT has now been delayed due to the inability of authorities to accommodate all signal cycles within 180 seconds.
With traffic cycles of 3 minutes or more, the South Delhi road will rival some of Delhi's worst traffic intersections such as ITO and Ghazipur.
Unlike normal roads with common traffic signals for a11vehicles, there would be four different traffic signals on the BRT stretch to regulate different modes of transport - buses, cars and two wheelers, cycles and pedestrians. Experts say 3 minutes is just the waiting time at the BRT, not taking into account traffic pile- ups. "With such a huge volume of traffic and narrow lanes, crossing the signal at one go will be impossible. If you are stuck at a signal for three signal cycles, you would end up waiting 10 minutes or more," said an expert.
While the ideal wait time is 120 seconds, the wait time in the BRT corridor would be 180 seconds at bigger intersections. This, when serpentine queues of cars have already started forming on intersections at Pushpa Vihar, Madangir, Chirag Dilli, Archana cinema and Moolchand. "We have tried to keep the maximum traffic wait time at intersections to 180 seconds," said a senior official of the Delhi Integrated Multi-Moda1 Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS), which is supervising the project.
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With traffic cycles of 3 minutes or more, the South Delhi road will rival some of Delhi's worst traffic intersections such as ITO and Ghazipur.
Unlike normal roads with common traffic signals for a11vehicles, there would be four different traffic signals on the BRT stretch to regulate different modes of transport - buses, cars and two wheelers, cycles and pedestrians. Experts say 3 minutes is just the waiting time at the BRT, not taking into account traffic pile- ups. "With such a huge volume of traffic and narrow lanes, crossing the signal at one go will be impossible. If you are stuck at a signal for three signal cycles, you would end up waiting 10 minutes or more," said an expert.
While the ideal wait time is 120 seconds, the wait time in the BRT corridor would be 180 seconds at bigger intersections. This, when serpentine queues of cars have already started forming on intersections at Pushpa Vihar, Madangir, Chirag Dilli, Archana cinema and Moolchand. "We have tried to keep the maximum traffic wait time at intersections to 180 seconds," said a senior official of the Delhi Integrated Multi-Moda1 Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS), which is supervising the project.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
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