elevated pedestrian corridor

The region’s speedway were never meant for buses, or the hundreds who depend on them, but engineered for cars to travel between the IT, outsourcing, manufacturing and residential hubs for speedy links with the capital. The result plays out at every random stop, every near-miss, every commuter stepping off into live traffic

Mumbai is seeing its biggest infrastructure push yet with new expressways, a 16-line metro network, a second international airport, sea links and tunnels. Will it reshape how the city functions? Will it change where its people live and work? Will it improve the quality of life in India’s buzziest metropolis?

Key stretches squeezed by encroached footpaths, poor planning too; multilevel facilities far from markets find few takers

12-km, six-lane elevated corridor with underpasses from Saket to Pul Prahladpur, aligned with DMRC, aims to ease chronic congestion and improve connectivity to Gurgaon and Faridabad

Chennai is experiencing a significant flyover boom, with new elevated corridors like Anna Salai and Madhya Kailash aiming to reduce commute times and traffic congestion. While offering relief, these projects also raise concerns about construction quality, pedestrian safety, and the long-term effectiveness of flyovers in managing the city's growing traffic demands.

A passer-by was injured after an iron rod, used for structural support, slipped and rebounded off a barricade during construction on the Worli–Sewri elevated corridor. The rod struck the man on the head, requiring four stitches. The incident has prompted a review of on-site safety measures near pedestrian areas.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has instructed its build operate transfer (BOT) concessionaires PNG Tollways Pvt Ltd to put up suggestion boards at the entries of the elevated corridor to prohibit pedestrians from taking the flyover.

Travel north from Kolkata will soon be much faster. The upgraded Kalyani Expressway is set to open on March 2. This new corridor features 21 signal-free flyovers. It will drastically cut travel time to AIIMS Kalyani to about 45 minutes. The project will also ease congestion in Barasat and improve airport access for several districts.

Four years from now, pedestrians could walk right under the elevated metro rail corridors to cross busy roads and junctions, as Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) is planning to build skywalks that will give commuters easy access to phase-2 stations and also double as elevated footpaths.

Five pedestrian underpasses, equipped with escalators, will be constructed under the elevated corridor on Avinashi Road to make crossing the road easier and safer for commuters.

Bus-Rapid-Transit (BRT) corridors on Anand Vihar Terminal to Peeragrahi (about 29km long on East-West corridor) and another from Wazirabad to IGI Airport (about 24km on North-South corridor) has been proposed by the AAP government.

MP Hemant Godse of Nashik recently called on Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari to request him to issue directions to turn the pedestrian subway at Dwarka on the Mumbai Agra highway (NH03) in Nashik for the use of two wheelers to resolve the continuous problem of traffic snarls at the Dwarka junction.