Solution To Delhi Traffic: 'flyover'

The city is building short ramps to let cars bypass busy intersections. Traffic has improved, but for how long?

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September 2, 2005, 5:00 AM PDT

Take a megalopolis bursting with people, add to it a sudden boom in car ownership, and you have the sort of dilemma facing many city planners and engineers in the developing world these days. Delhi, however, has found a quick-fix of sorts: the flyover. Flyovers are block-length ramps without traffic signals that allow traffic to zip up, across, and over busy intersections. Twenty new flyovers have been built in the last five years and another 16 are under construction."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: Solution to Delhi traffic: 'flyover'

Sunday, September 4, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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