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Solving traffic congestion key agenda for next 5 yrs: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Addressing traffic congestion in Delhi would be a focus area of the AAP government in the next five years if it is reelected, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday. Another priority area would be providing clean water to everyone, he said addressing the people in a town-hall meeting in North West Delhi’s Pitampura.
“Steps in various directions are needed to resolve the issue of traffic congestion in Delhi. The wide roads in Delhi turn into a narrow three or four-lane roads after a few miles, resulting in a bottleneck situation and heavy traffic jams at some particular locations,” the chief minister said.
Roads at various locations in Delhi need to be redesigned which can bring about a big change in the traffic movement, he added.
“We have designated a consultant to create a list of the locations in Delhi where there are daily traffic jams. The designated consultant will provide us with a roadmap or a report within 9-10 months on how to solve the problem of traffic congestion in these locations,” he said.
“We will start working on resolving congestion issues on each road mentioned in the list, and we will be able to do it at the earliest. Just as we have worked on addressing issues in the fields of education, health, power, water, sewer, and drainage, etc in the last five years, we will work on resolving traffic congestion issues in the next five years,” Kejriwal said.
He also promised that in the next five years each resident will get round the clock drinking water supply. “It is being said that the water is bad. I’m drinking water straight from the tap,” Kejriwal said and drank a glass of water drawn apparently from the tap.
“When our government was formed five years ago, around 2,300 areas in Delhi received contaminated water. We created a list of all such locations as well as causes of the contamination and deployed various resources for the resolution of the issue in each of those areas. Now, only 150 areas in Delhi receive contaminated water, and we are working on providing clean water to these areas as well,” he said. (PTI)

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