Noida: Noida Authority will build a 5.4-kilometre, six-lane elevated road connecting the busy Rajnigandha Chowk to Sector 57 at an estimated cost of Rs 700 crore, making it the city’s third elevated road. Once completed, commuters can take this route from DND Flyway and bypass jams on internal sector roads to head towards Greater Noida West and Electronic City.IIT Roorkee has recently submitted a feasibility report and is now preparing a detailed project report for the project, Noida Authority’s senior manager Kapil Dev said. “The DPR will be ready in two to three months, after which a developer will be hired,” he said.Rajnigandha Chowk is one of the city’s most congested intersections, where traffic from the DND Flyway, sectors 18, 16, and 12 converges. The elevated corridor is proposed to pass over sectors 3, 10, 12, 22, and 57, providing a signal-free route through the stretch. Officials are also considering extending the alignment further to Sector 60 along Vishwakarma Road.At present, the DND Flyway to Sector 57 stretch serves as a key link for traffic moving between Delhi, Khoda, Noida and Greater Noida West. But traffic movement often slows considerably between Rajnigandha Chowk and sectors 12/22 and 56 intersections during morning and evening peak hours.The city currently has two operational elevated corridors. The Noida Elevated Road, a six-kilometre, six-lane corridor that also begins near Rajnigandha Chowk in Sector 18, runs above the Master Plan-II Road and provides signal-free connectivity towards Sector 61 and onward to NH-24 and Indirapuram. The recently opened Bhangel Elevated Road, 4.5 kilometres long, runs over the congested Dadri-Surajpur-Chhalera Road from Aghapur petrol pump to the Noida Special Economic Zone.Two more corridors are in various stages of planning and construction. The long-delayed Chilla elevated road, a 5.5-kilometre, six-lane corridor targeting the heavily congested Noida entry gate, is now 47% complete and is expected to be operational by June 2027. Once open, it is expected to ease the chronic bottleneck between Mayur Vihar and the Mahamaya Flyover.Another 1.4-kilometre elevated road is proposed to connect the Mahamaya Flyover with the Yamuna Pushta Road near Sector 94, aimed at easing pressure on the Noida Expressway. Together, the corridors across the city’s north-south spine are expected to absorb rising traffic volumes, especially as commercial flight operations are to start from the Noida airport later this month.
