Better access to ISBT,more facilities to ease chaos at Nizamuddin station

“The locomotive and goods sheds located here are now being shifted to a different location so that a new platform can come up. The station will now have a total of eight platforms,” said a senior Northern Railways official. Booking offices,cloakroom and waiting rooms for both men and women are already in place at this end of the station.

New parking area
The entry point from the ISBT-end is especially congested during the morning and evening rush hours due to the lack of parking space. Keeping this in mind,a circulating and parking area is also being developed,a senior Railways official said.

The planned platform will lead out of the station into the circulating area that is being specially designed to organise movement of vehicles for pick and drop.

A parking area,spread over 5,000 sq m,was identified earlier by the Railways near the Transport Authority office,which is approximately 150 m away from the station — it was proposed to be connected to the station through a skywalk.

After discussions with Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta,the Railways has received a proposal from DIMTS,which does not involve the same plot but illustrates an alternate plan of developing a parking space close to the ISBT and a 7m-wide foot overbridge (FOB) connecting the bus terminus with the station. Railways officials said the plan has been approved for implementation.

“Non-availability of Railways land on this side of station has been a major constraint— the steps of the FOB will be on land owned by the Delhi government. The matter was taken up with the Chief Secretary and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for a transfer of land,” a senior Railways official said.

“It was decided that a plot measuring 5,200 sq m,which is currently owned by the Slum and JJ wing of the MCD,will be transferred to the DIMTS to develop a multi-level parking and connect it with both the railway station and the ISBT with a skywalk that will be equipped with walkators,” he added.

Officials said essential services like washrooms,queuing areas with additional booking and PRS counters,bigger waiting halls have also been proposed under this skywalk.

The Railways has also requested Mehta for permission to widen roads outside the station,wherever possible,by narrowing footpaths,and checking unauthorised parking to ease congestion.

Upcoming platform will link to bus terminal
ISBT y to the Nizamuddin railway station caters to approximately 50 per cent of passengers. After the new platform comes up,passengers can walk directly into the station premises.

Platform no 8 be constructed by shifting existing goods sheds to ease the movement of passengers from the railway station into the ISBT. A foot overbridge will also connect the two

5,200 sq m tified near the ISBT where the multi-level parking area will be developed by the DIMTS. Land will be transferred from MCD for this purpose