Experts disagree with MP Kher, say flyovers not the best way to fix city’s traffic issue

While Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher, in a press conference on Wednesday, reiterated that the city needs flyovers to improve traffic congestion, several urban planning experts and architects say otherwise. “Having flyovers will not serve to ease traffic congestion but would make the city gridlocked and jammed”, they said while also saying that the focus should be towards cities that are pulling down existing flyovers.

During the conference, Kher pitched for flyovers, deeming it as the solution behind traffic congestion. “People who come from Zirakpur side and get stuck in traffic know the pain they suffer every day…Definitely the heritage points of the city may not be touched, but flyovers are the solution and centre was even ready for one in the city,” she said.