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Traveling from Fancy Bazar to Bhootnath can be a test of patience for a lot of people. The busy traffic, the noise of horns and the sound of vehicles are part of everyday life. A lot of people usually get stuck in traffic that barely moves. But now things might get better as the Assam government has planed to construct a flyover connecting Guwahati to North Guwahati and make traveling easier for the common people.

Until now the journey had been straightforward but clogged, with rickshaws, bikes, cars and buses struggling for space specially in the Bharalumukh and M.G Road area. This has been causing traffic and inconvenience for the commuters coming from the Maligaon side. In addition, the traffic chaos consumes time and causes inconvenience for the people travelling to North Guwahati.

In a refeshing move, the Assam Government has sketched out a flyover connecting Guwahati-North Guwahati to streamline traffic flow in the areas of Jalukbari, Maligaon, Adabari, and Bharalumukh. The flyover is being constructed under the Assam Bridge Project of the PWD Department. The total cost of the bridge is around 2,608.68 crore. The bridge is expected to be the country’s longest extradosed bridge. This flyover will reduce the traffic chaos along the Machkhowa to Shantipur area as the M.G Road will be converted to one-way at that particular stretch. Once the bridge is completed , it will take only 10 minutes to travel from Guwahati to North Guwahati.

Both entry and exit point of the flyover will be managed through rotaries, ensuring smooth traffic flow and providing picturesque view of the Brahmaputra River to the travellers.

This flyover is scheduled to open in March 2024, the sources said.