The Outer Ring Road is a 6-lane

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that encircles the city of

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. It has three lanes in each direction, with a total length of 47 km. Although it used to have

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s and at-grade

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, mushrooming interchanges have reduced the number of lights to just two, and traffic now flows much more smoothly. Several stretches of the Outer Ring Road have been notified as

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s. Delhi features two ring roads, a main one and an outer one. The two ring roads have a combined length of 87 km.

Junctions

Outer Ring Road features 14 junctions. In no particular order, they are: *NH 8/Subruto Park, * Vasant Kunj/ Munirka/

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, * IIT Gate (flyover), *Khel Gaon Marg (flyover), near Malviya Nagar and Panchsheel Colony *Madan Gir/Chirag Delhi (flyover)/Andrews Ganj, * Kalkaji/ Nehru Place (flyover), *Modi Mill (flyover), *Okhla, *ISBT (flyover), *

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, *Majra Burari, *Azad Pur/Jahingir Pur, *Rohini, *Peera Garhi, *Sundar Vihar, *Vikas Puri, *Janakpuri(Pankha Road) *Delhi Cantt(Cariappa Marg)

Pedestrian Underpasses

Like the Ring Road, Delhi's Outer Ring Road features some semblance of grade separation between pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Pedestrian underpasses are present at the following points: *Near Chirag Delhi Flyover (DTTDC) *Near IIT Flyover (DTTDC) *Dr. Hedgewar Marg at Saraswati Vihar *Soaminagar *Mangol Puri *Paras Cinema Flyover, Nehru Place * Munirka *Sarvpriya Vihar *Power House, Pitampura *Rama Market, Pitampura Additional pedestrian underpasses are to be constructed at the following points: *Kalkaji Temple junction *Panchsheel Colony

Gallery

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on Outer Ring Road, Delhi

References

External links

Article about a recent grade separation project, and the at-grade intersection at Moolchand

grade speration along the AIIMS-Naraina stretch

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Junctions

Pedestrian Underpasses

Gallery

See also

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