GURGAON: Two years ago when the Gurgaon-Faridabad road was upgraded to an expressway, the residents of private posh colonies and Sikanderpur village on the road were hopeful about getting better infrastructure. But to date there are no streetlights and safety measures on the entire stretch, thus making it highly accident-prone and unsafe for commuters.
A local resident says, "The road, which has heavy traffic flow, remains completely dark throughout the night. Without traffic light and police checks, commuters also do not hesitate in driving on the wrong side of the road thus causing traffic hazard."
Despite the fact that there are several residential colonies on both sides of the road and over 10,000 people reside in the area, authorities are not paying any heed to their demands.
Raising the concern, Parimal Bardhan, president of H block residential community, says apart from heavy vehicular traffic, there is frequent pedestrian movement by schoolchildren and other people, who risk their lives every day. Even the intersection at the Qutab Plaza market, the major neighbourhood shopping place for hundreds of residents is without traffic light, he said and added that a large number of vehicles passing through the crossing makes it really dangerous for senior citizens and women to cross the road to the market.
Manoj Tripathi, a frequent commuter from the Gurgaon-Faridabad road, said after the removal of fencing from both the sides of the road by Reliance Infrastructure for expansion purposes, the residential areas have become insecure and the greenbelt is being misused by miscreants.
As a commuter, it is dangerous to travel on this road without streetlights and proper traffic management. Also, garbage is being dumped on both sides of the road due to lack of monitoring by authorities concerned.
The residents as well as the RWAs have repeatedly approached the senior officials of all authorities concerned, including PWD, HUDA and the MCG but to date no action has been taken. The authorities continue to play the blame game among themselves while Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, the concessionaire for this project, also did not respond to the residents' issues.
A local resident says, "The road, which has heavy traffic flow, remains completely dark throughout the night. Without traffic light and police checks, commuters also do not hesitate in driving on the wrong side of the road thus causing traffic hazard."
Despite the fact that there are several residential colonies on both sides of the road and over 10,000 people reside in the area, authorities are not paying any heed to their demands.
Raising the concern, Parimal Bardhan, president of H block residential community, says apart from heavy vehicular traffic, there is frequent pedestrian movement by schoolchildren and other people, who risk their lives every day. Even the intersection at the Qutab Plaza market, the major neighbourhood shopping place for hundreds of residents is without traffic light, he said and added that a large number of vehicles passing through the crossing makes it really dangerous for senior citizens and women to cross the road to the market.
Manoj Tripathi, a frequent commuter from the Gurgaon-Faridabad road, said after the removal of fencing from both the sides of the road by Reliance Infrastructure for expansion purposes, the residential areas have become insecure and the greenbelt is being misused by miscreants.
As a commuter, it is dangerous to travel on this road without streetlights and proper traffic management. Also, garbage is being dumped on both sides of the road due to lack of monitoring by authorities concerned.
The residents as well as the RWAs have repeatedly approached the senior officials of all authorities concerned, including PWD, HUDA and the MCG but to date no action has been taken. The authorities continue to play the blame game among themselves while Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, the concessionaire for this project, also did not respond to the residents' issues.
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