In accordance to the growing population and rapidly increasing number of vehicles registered in Delhi, the Public Works Department (PWD) is planning another bridge over the Yamuna. The new bridge, said PWD officials, would be built upstream on the Yamuna, further north of Wazirabad bridge. Engineers said a consultant would soon be appointed to suggest the alignment of the bridge.
The consultant would carry out a traffic survey and a feasibility study and would also fix the geometric of the bridge. The new bridge is being planned between Karawal Nagar in north east Delhi and Alipur in north Delhi and would come up several kilometres upstream of the Wazirabad bridge, said PWD officials.
At present there are just eight road bridges on the 48-kilometre Yamuna — Wazriabad, Shastri Park, Old Bridge, Geeta Colony, ITO, Nizamuddin, DND and Kalindi Kunj. Two more bridges — one parallel to the Okhla Barrage and another as extension to the Barapullah elevated road —are in the planning stage.
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