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The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has initiated construction on a newly approved elevated road linking the Gopalpura railway overbridge to Gurhar ki Thadi, and a detailed traffic-management strategy has been put into action. Work will progress in 125-metre segments to minimise disruption, with service lanes temporarily merged into the main road so that the available width reduces by about five metres at most. Two pilings are already underway at key locations; full elevated road construction will follow once piling is complete. The foundation stone for the project was laid by the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led state government, and the 30-month timeline has been confirmed.
The Jaipur Development Authority has begun the work on an elevated road corridor connecting the Gopalpura railway overbridge with Gurhar ki Thadi in Jaipur. A collaboration between the JDA and local traffic police has produced a traffic-management plan aimed at keeping vehicular movement smooth during the construction phase. Advertisement
Construction will proceed in segments of 125 metres at a time. In each segment, service lanes running parallel to the main carriageway will be merged into the main road, meaning that the overall available width will shrink by approximately five metres at any given time. This approach is intended to avoid blanket road closures or major diversions.
Traffic Commissioner Sumeet Meharda stated that no "blanket traffic stops or diversions" are planned and expressed confidence that "there will be no major traffic disruptions" during the project.
So far, piling work has started at two key locations one between Riddhi Siddhi Circle and Kasliwal Path crossing on Gopalpura Bypass Road, and the other near Triveni Tiraha on the same road. The elevated road construction proper will commence once this pile-foundation work is complete.
The project's foundation stone was laid by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma in late September, and the elevated road has been scheduled for completion in around 30 months.
To provide context, traffic congestion has long been an issue along the Gopalpura Bypass and adjacent arterial roads such as New Sanganer Road, Riddhi-Siddhi and Gurjar ki Thadi. Encroachment on the six-lane Gopalpura Bypass in previous years had reduced the effective lanes and added to the bottleneck. Work planning documents from earlier this year had flagged heavy congestion between Gopalpura Flyover and Gurjar ki Thadi, and the JDA in May had approved the elevated road project to address this with an estimated budget of INR 184.87 crore.
By staging the work in short segments with minimal lane reduction, the authorities aim to keep traffic flowing while delivering a significant infrastructure upgrade. The elevated road will pass over a busy traffic corridor and connect residential and industrial zones to major thoroughfares such as Tonk Road and Ajmer Road.
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