Sewa Ram, an urban transport systems design expert and a faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in Delhi, said that drainage system of the underpasses in the city needs to be reviewed. One of the luxury cars was removed on Thursday,” he said. Two drivers had to swim to get to a safe spot, leaving their cars in water. “We removed the cars with the help of cranes and ropes tied to PCR vehicles and the personnel helped the motorcyclists to park their vehicles at safe places. Nine cars broke down in the waterlogging on Wednesday on Golf Course Road and seven two wheelers got stuck, said Sanjeev Balhara, assistant commissioner of police (traffic). My moving from Delhi seemed futile,” said Kapoor. I paid crores of money to purchase a house in a safe area, but I cannot even get a safe stretch of road to drive on during rains. I was left completely shocked and appalled. On my way, I saw a sedan was stuck inside the underpass, and its occupant had left it midway. Soon after I cleared the underpass, I took a U-turn and decided to head back home. “I have an SUV, which has a high ground clearance due to which I was able to clear the underpass in the nick of time as the level of rainwater suddenly started rising. Rakesh Kapoor, a resident of DLF 5, said that he had a narrow escape he managed to navigate his vehicle through the underpass just a few minutes before it was completely flooded. We are verifying this,” said VS Kundu, chief executive officer of GMDA. We are suspecting that the motor pumps installed by DLF were either not working or working at a limited capacity. GCR does not have any drains on the surface and as a result rainwater from across the road flows down towards the underpasses. “We are still examining the reason behind the waterlogging of the underpasses on GCR as it has occurred for the first time at this particular stretch. Starting in 2018, all of HSVP’s drains were transferred to the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA). On Wednesday, HSVP’s pipeline was choked especially at the line connected to DLF Phase 1 underpass due to which the entire rainwater flowed back and inundated the underpass,” said the executive, who requested anonymity. “At each of the three underpasses, we have a chamber located below the underpasses where rainwater is stored and is pumped out from our motors towards the HSVP’s master line. Underpasses at Genpact Chowk and Bristol Chowk were drained of flood waters by Wednesday evening, but the one at DLF Phase 1 proved to be more challenging.Ī DLF executive said the main HSVP drain through which the underpasses’ drainage system is connected was choked and as a result, the rainwater flowed back. Starting at 11 am on Wednesday, each of these three underpasses was flooded and the traffic police had to close them to traffic. In June 2012, DLF and Haryana Shahri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP).jointly started construction of the 16-lane project and three years later, most of the work on the main carriageways was completed.In March 2017, the first of the three underpasses was opened to traffic at Bristol Chowk the second opened at DLF Phase 1 a month later and the one at Genpact Chowk became operational in March 2018.Īs part of the agreement between HSVP and DLF, the latter was the caretaker of the stretch and the former the owner. It was in October 2010 that the project of redesigning Golf Course Road was outsourced to DLF. Such was the extent of flooding that the entire structure was filled with rainwater, some of which started overflowing onto the main carriageway located more than three metres above the underpass. Three underpasses were flooded by the rain, one of which at DLF Phase 1 could be cleared only by late Thursday evening, after more than 30 hours of non-stop efforts by fire service personnel to drain the water. Haryana Emergency Services vehicle deployed for rescue after Golf Course Road underpass was fully inundated following heavy rains in Gurugram.(Parveen Kumar/HT Photo) Underneath all the glitter, the stretch between Ghata T-Point and Bristol Chowk has many drawbacks that were exposed when torrential rain lashed GCR on Wednesday and triggered chaos. Gurugram: Golf Course Road (GCR) is a seven-kilometre, signal-free corridor that boasts some of the toniest residential apartment blocks and imposing steel-and-glass office facades in Gurugram, with wide driving spaces and underpasses leading into and out of the city.
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