As the initial euphoria of coming into power comes to a gradual, though inevitable, end, the Road Construction department under the tutelage of Nand Kishore Yadav, admitted that the earlier plan to turn Patna into a 'city of flyovers' was not well thought-out and formed a new committee to chalk out a new plan to rid the city from its traffic quagmire.
The committee would be led by the chief engineer of the Road Construction department and has been formed to suggest ways to ease traffic in the metro Patna and how to eliminate bottlenecks on roads that connect the city with a number of satellite towns, officials said on Friday.
Yadav, the Road Construction Minister, said that the previous plan to build a number of flyovers in Patna has, at least for now, been put on hold except for the one between the Tiwari Bechar petrol pump and Chiraiyantand Bridge.
The administration, however, is now considering building of a ring road around Bailey Road and Danapur that would drastically cut down traffic on the busy Bailey Road, that Yadav, on Thursday, said was in worse condition than ever before.
The new plan also includes strengthening of the road in Kankarbagh that connects the Old Bypass Road to the New Bypass Road, and widening of the road between Gai Ghat and Rajendra Nagar Stadium.
Source: www.patnadaily.com, 8th Oct,2007
