No stopping your smooth drive from S G to G’nagar

No stopping your smooth drive from S G to G’nagar

Adalaj cloverleaf interchange to be thrown open to public on Monday

DILIP PATEL

Ayear after work on the project took off, the cloverleaf interchange at Adalaj will finally be thrown open to the public by the roads and buildings department on Monday. What this will ensure is a smooth cruise from S G Highway to Gandhinagar with no traffic stoppage at Adalaj, which earlier had a state highway and national highway crossing each other.
The Rs 15-crore central government-sponsored interchange will have two highways, state and national, four bypass roads and four connecting roads in the shape of a clover leaf.
A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which left turns are handled by loop roads. To go left, vehicles first pass either over or under the other road, then turn right onto a one-way, three-fourths loop, and merge onto the intersecting road. The Adalaj cloverleaf design has two descending loop roads and two ascending ones.
Earlier traffic cops had to be posted as around 80,000 vehicles, heavy commercial and passenger, crisscrossed the interection every day, resulting in accidents. The traffic is expected to double in six years.
S B Vasavada, chief engineer (national highways division), R&B department, said, “The interchange is ready to be thrown open to the public. This will ease traffic on the road, besides preventing accidents. Work is on to shift the overhead GEB line, and railing work on the stretch will be completed soon.”