Janakpuri West-WPS Office

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Janakpuri West metro station lies on the Blue Line

Its preceding station is Janakpuri east (towards Noida


City Center) and the following station is Uttam Nagar
East. center track arrangement and
elevated, spanning a two way road(Najafgarh Rad and
Shivaji Road) with a U-Turn.is surrounded by Vikas Kunj
and New Krishna Park Colony in the north,Narang
Colony in south-west and Janakpuri District Center and
Piccadilly Hotel in south-east.

Since the metro spans the roads and lands on Parking space is allocated along Joginder Singh Marg on either side
footpath on either side of the road, giving gateson all which sacrifices thefootpath and also resulting in parking along the
four directions, there exist no front or back. All four
gates are equally crowded.
metro pillars (as shown above) which furtherleads to reduction of
OTHER USES: effective width of the roads.
METRO PILLARS: The fencing of platform on which the
metro pillars stand result

bounded space which cannot be accessed. The greens inside this


fenced area is also notmaintained rendering them useless. However,
to facilitate pedestrians exiting from gate no. 2 or 1, a FOB is provided
the metro pillars in front of gate no. 4 are notfenced and functioning at 80 metersfrom gate 2. However, the footpath ends serving more like
as drop off for cars and hawking activities. Some metro pillars are a platform connecting exits 1 & 2and is surrounded by metro traffic.
usedfor parking along and placement of sign boards and
advertisements. This metro traffic is followed by hawkers and strollers frompark
Figure 17.
behind, lined till the bus stand followed by few ancillary shops and
SECTION FROM JANAKPURI WEST METRO STATION (SOURCE: leading to FOB.The entire stretch leading to FOB shows a variety of
AUTHOR)
PARKING
activity in transition one after the other.The informal activities in the
Parking space is allocated along Joginder Singh Marg on either side form of hawkers, ancillary shops, induced metro traffic areimportant
which sacrifices thefootpath and also resulting in parking along the
metro pillars (as shown above) which furtherleads to reduction of
support functions of this space but are functioning without any space
effective width of the roads. organizationand thus sacrificing the prime function

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