Traffic NOC for metro work near Technopolis crossing
Times of India | 2 July 2024
Kolkata: Cops have handed over half of the airport-bound flank at New Town’s Technopolis crossing for construction of another part of Nabadiganta Metro station of the New Garia-Airport or Orange Line.
Bidhannagar Police’s traffic department issued the no-objection certificate (NOC) on Monday, while trials were on for cops to study movement of the airport-bound cars through an 11m wide and 170m long barricaded lane.Monday being the first day of the week, traffic was slow along the stretch where the new regulations were in place. The NOC issued by Bidhannagar traffic police stated that Monday’s NOC was being given to RVNL for construction of entry structure C and the pedestrian holding point at the roadside garden at the Technopolis crossing.
Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has created road space of similar dimensions on the western side of Biswa Bangla Sarani.RVNL will start piling work for the rest of the metro station from Tuesday.
Cops haven’t mentioned the duration of the traffic block given to RVNL, but sources said airport-bound cars would have to move this way for the next one year while the overhead metro station is being built. Things might improve a bit three months later when RVNL vacates the other barricaded portion of Biswa Bangla Sarani for Kolkata or Salt Lake-bound vehicles.
In August last year, RVNL was given this site at Technopolis for one part of construction of Nabadiganta Metro station, cordoning off another 11m by 180m section of Biswa Bangla Sarani. Salt Lake or Kolkata-bound vehicles have been diverted through the service road in front of Technopolis building ever since. The airport-bound flank was entirely free. But now, there is regulation in place for this flank as well.
RVNL was supposed to seek the second phase of the traffic block, for the airport-bound road, after completing two columns of the Metro station. Since April this year it has been asking for the airport-bound flank because the two columns of the Metro station have been completed.