Revamp for 11km stretch linking MG Road with SPR

Gurgaon: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (

GMDA

) has launched the project to repair and upgrade an 11-km stretch, which starts from MG

Road

on Delhi border and ends at

Southern Peripheral Road

(SPR). The stretch connects Golf Course Road Extension, IFFCO Chowk,

Huda City Centre

and Ardee City.

The total cost of the project, according to a GMDA official, is Rs 10.8 crore. “Apart from the expressway, this stretch also sees a lot of vehicular movement. Hence, it is important to maintain this route, and any damage to the stretch could cause huge traffic snarls,” said a senior GMDA official.

He also said the tenders for the project were allotted over a month ago.

“We have already started milling of the thoroughfare, and rest of the work will be taken up later,” he said. Besides this, service roads and U-turns will be repaired and upgraded, and kerbs will be painted.

The project is expected to be completed within next six months, and the work will be carried out as per the guidelines of Union ministry of road transport and highways.

Talking about the repair of roads across the city, the official said the authority is continuously tracking damages caused to major city roads and simultaneously carrying out repair work as well. The SPR, which suffered damage at several points, has also been repaired. GMDA is also working on a 230- crore project to upgrade SPR.

The work to repair and lay roads has also been launched in new sectors. The authority recently floated tenders for the repair work of the road connecting NH-8 and sectors 80 and 81. The road starts from Rampura Chowk on NH-8 and connects multiple sectors along the Dwarka Expressway.

TOI had earlier reported that with an objective to provide better roads, GMDA had planned to conduct regular surveys covering three different indices to check quality of roads. These include roughness index, peak volume capacity and road safety audits.

According to officials in the GMDA’s engineering wing, the surveys will be either conducted annually or once in two years. The roughness index is basically a measure of the texture of the road surface, and it tests the number of potholes or craters per kilometre. These surveys will be conducted on master roads in GMDA’s jurisdiction.

The peak volume capacity will ascertain if traffic on a particular junction is within its capacity or beyond. The last matrix for the survey of roads is the road safety audit (RSA), which will help GMDA identify the accident-prone zones in the city. Once the audit is complete, the authority can take a decision on the installation of speed-breakers and signboards.