Two key ramps to the Barapullah elevated road will be officially thrown open on Sunday in an attempt to improve connectivity between south and east Delhi and vice-versa. Two links — one for traffic coming from Ashram/DND Flyway side on Ring Road and the other from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium towards Lala Lajpat Rai Marg near Jangpura — are expected to save travel time up to 30 minutes.

Ramp B will bring down a 2.8km drive from the Sidharth Extension side on Ring Road to get onto Barapullah — which has been rechristened Banda Bahadur Marg — to a mere 400 metres, saving travel time of around half an hour even during peak traffic movement and reducing congestion on Ring Road near the Sarai Kale Khan bus terminus. The travel time to ITO and east Delhi by Ring Road, too, is expected to go down due to decongestion of traffic around Sarai Kale Khan.

Ramp B was opened in November on trial basis while Ramp G, the link from JLN Stadium, will be inaugurated on Sunday. However, commuters will have to wait till March 2017 to take Barapullah from INA, which had a deadline of December. The delay is attributed to a railway overbridge that is to be constructed near Thyagaraja Stadium to link the elevated road between INA and JLN Stadium. Once the railways completes it, the public works department (PWD) will connect the elevated road from INA to JLN Stadium, completing Phase-II of Barapullah, being built at a cost of Rs 530 crore. Phase-III will go over the Yamuna connecting Barapullah with Mayur Vihar. It is estimated to cost around Rs 1,000 crore and scheduled to be ready in 2018.

Ramp G, near Jangpura, will facilitate the traffic coming from the JLN Stadium/INA side and going towards CGO complex/ITO. This ramp will fork out of the elevated corridor and merge with Lala Lajpat Rai Marg near the Jangpura Metro station.

According to officials, the real benefit of the ramp will be visible when the phase is over as it will facilitate direct access from INA to central, south and east Delhi. Traffic coming from the INA side will go directly to CGO Complex and Pragati Vihar via Lala Lajpat Rai Marg. It will also decongest Lodhi Road and Aurobindo Marg.

Ramp B, which has been functional for a fortnight, is letting commuters take Barapullah from the Ashram side without having to travel till the bus terminus to take a U-turn towards the elevated Road. People travelling to central Delhi from Ashram, too, can hope for a relatively easy commute. As one goes up the ramp, another loop, ramp C, will fork out and go under the elevated road leading to ISBT, which is being renovated. This ramp will be kept closed till the renovation work is over. Once the 460-metre-long ramp opens, buses coming from the Ashram side will go directly to the bus stand instead of causing bottlenecks on Ring Road.

Ramps B and G, being executed by PWD, will be inaugurated on Sunday by chief minister Arvind Kerjiwal.