Chittaranjan Avenue
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| C.R. Avenue | |
| north end | Girish Park |
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| south end | Esplanade |
Chittaranjan Avenue, more commonly C.R. Avenue (Formerly Central Avenue), a principal north-south thoroughfare in Central-North Kolkata. It starts from Beadon Street (Dani Ghosh Sarani/Abhedananda Road) crossing (Girish Park) in the north and ends at Chowringhee Road-Bentinck Street Junction (Esplanade) in the south. The road is renamed after Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, a nationalist politician and freedom-fighter of India.[1] North of Beadon Street crossing, Chittaranjan Avenue becomes Jatindra Mohan Avenue.[2]
Significance
The road is arterial in maintaining north to central and vice versa connection in
Operation
The road is bi-directional throughout the day. Certain crossings are however unidirectional, that is, in certain crossings vehicles can turn only in a specific direction and the other direction-turning is a punishable crime.
Gallery
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Jorasanko Thakur Bari Gate, C.R. Avenue -
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, C.R. Avenue -
Airlines House, C.R. Avenue -
Yogayog Bhawan, C.R. Avenue
References
- ^ "10 facts you shouldn't miss about the 'Deshbandhu'". 16 June 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Google maps
- ^ See Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/streets-in-motion/2D42F4BF0D2086A1DBB254A5120ACB42
- S2CID 250200020.
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