India, April 25 -- The Public Works Department (PWD) is set to launch an intersection redesign initiative across the city to address traffic congestion and enhance road safety, with five of the city's most accident-prone and congested intersections to be taken up in the initial phase, minister Parvesh Verma said on Thursday.

The department is in the final stages of appointing consultants who will help redesign these intersections in line with road safety principles. The intersections selected for the redesign include those near Metcalfe House, Mukarba Chowk, Kingsway Camp junction, ITO junction, and one critical location on Ring Road.

These points were surveyed about two years ago, but no intervention was made at the time, officials sai...