Ashram flyover open but Kale Khan ramp to be completed in 30-45 days

During a spot check on Monday, HT also found that the stretch needed finishing touches, with street lights missing in some spots and central verges incomplete in others.

- Paras Singh

Even as the Ashram flyover extension was opened for traffic on Monday evening, officials of Delhi’s public works department (PWD) said that a key ramp linking the stretch with Sarai Kale Khan will take between 30 and 45 days to be completed, roughly the same time it will take to shift high-tension power lines that have kept authorities from allowing trucks and buses onto the road, in what are the two final pieces of work left on the Ashram intersection.

Delhi’s busiest crossing, Ashram Chowk has been subject to overlapping work on two infrastructure projects for years, with traffic slowed to a crawl across south, southeast and central Delhi.

The inauguration of the extension, as it stands, will primarily ease traffic for commuters heading from Ashram towards Noida, and only aid vehicles moving from Sarai Kale Khan once the ramp is thrown open.