Jaipur: Open-green corridors in Kishanpole Bazaar for non-motorized vehicles soon

Jaipur:  A traffic lane system has been developed for the city’s first smart road named Kishanpole Bazaar Road – under the Smart City Project in the Walled City. The work of painting and building open-green corridors on the road was started from Tuesday. 

Non-motorized vehicles such as eRickshaws, bicycles and others will be operated on the green corridors in the near future, said officials.

According to the officials, the green corridor was supposed to be developed between footpath and parking earlier, the officials decided to change it. As per the new design, the green corridor will be preceded by parking space and footpath near shops.

The width of the green corridor is 2.20 meters. It will be built on both sides of the market. Its length of one side will probably be 700 meters.

XEN of smart road project Suresh Beniwal said that the green corridor is being constructed under the guidelines of Indian Roads Congress (IRC). No inconvenience will be caused to the traffic police officers. The parking will be in a 30-degree angle.

Traffic division at Kishanpole market road under the smart project:

•    Normal traffic will run on the width 7.0-meter road.

•    Footpath covering 1.8-meter width has been built

•    A 3.0 width area of the road has been allotted to parking space on which cars will be parked at an angle of 30 degrees.

•    Lastly, a 2.20-meter width road has been given for Green corridors in which non-motorized vehicles will run.