Click to play videoNew Delhi: Two days ago the Delhi government decided to take a U-turn and come up with a new design for the Moolchand to Delhi Gate Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor.
CNN-IBN's Neha Seth caught up with East Delhi Member of Parliament and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's son Sandeep Dikshit.
Sandeep has blamed the IIT professors and RITES, who were in charge of designing the project, of making mistakes in the planning but is not ready to admit that it was the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her government that approved this plan.
"I think the RITES people and the IIT people messed it up. There are bottlenecks, which are the red light crossings. So rational red light planning and the amount of time you should give for planning and how do you actually assess what are the traffic coming in from the different lanes, if that had been done simultaneously it would have been much better," Sandeep says.
Sandeep does not agree that the new design is being introduced because the first stretch of the BRT is flawed.
"All that they have decided is that there is a lot of demand not to have buses in the middle. So what we say is once you cross the Moolchand crossing and the flyover ends, you can ask buses at the center of the road to move to the left of the road," he says.
He dismisses the Opposition's accusation that Congress MP's have vested business interests in keeping the BRT corridor alive.
"Wild statements like these are completely useless. It is an old habit," he adds.
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