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Delhi's BRT corridor to continue

Expansion plans put on hold

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 19 2013 | 10:22 PM IST

The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

"It has been decided that till this corridor does not become perfect, we will not undertake any expansion of the project," Dikshit told reporters here after the meeting to review the functioning of the transport system that has met with public ire for the traffic chaos it resulted in.

In view of the intense criticism of the 5.8-km Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand stretch in South Delhi, the first of the six proposed for the capital, the chief minister had called a meeting of the various stakeholders to review its performance and take a decision on whether to continue with it or scrap it.

Dikshit said, while the feedback was that the corridor aiming at segregating different kinds of vehicles into separate lanes was satisfactory with regard to buses, pedestrians and cyclists, motorists were facing problems.

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"We will construct a parallel road to ease the problems of motorists," she said. 

In all, six BRT corridors have been planned for the capital.

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