High road trio to Calcutta airport

Calcutta: A road revamp plan is being chalked out to supplement the Rs 2,000-crore modernisation of Calcutta airport, which took off in January.
The road revamp scheme is being drawn up by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Once finalised, the proposal will be placed before the state transport department.
“We are calculating the project cost and will hold talks with transport department officials after that,” said Bakshi, a former chief general manager of the National Highways Authority of India.
“We will look into the proposal and work on it,” said transport secretary Sumantra Chowdhury.
As part of the revamp, the AAI will propose an elevated corridor from Belghoria Expressway to the VIP Road-Rajarhat New Town Road crossing, with an interchange for an independent access to the airport. The access road, too, will be elevated to ensure that vehicles to and from the airport are not caught in snarls.
11/02/08 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph

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Categories: airports Feb 2008