VIP Road (officially Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue) is a major thoroughfare connecting the city of Kolkata with Dumdum/Kolkata Airport. Located in the North-Eastern outskirts of the city, it was built in 1962 to provide speedy connection with the city and its sole airport. VIP Road is part of State Highway 3. To reduce traffic jams especially in the crossings of Kestopur and Baguiati, a flyover is constructed over the stretch between Dum Dum Park and Raghunathpur, which opened in March 2015. Another flyover connecting VIP Road with EM Bypass was opened in 2011, reducing traffic bottlenecks at Ultadanga crossing. This road is renamed after Kazi Nazrul Islam, a famous Bengali poet from India.
VIP Road runs just north of Salt Lake Sector 1 and is well-connected to it by several footbridges and kheyas. Lake Town Footbridge leads to the part of Salt Lake from where one can easily reach 4 no tank.[clarification needed] Similarly, the footbridge at Kestopur leads to Baishakhi bus stop in Salt Lake.[citation needed]
VIP Road was renamed after the great revolutionary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
In popular culture
Feluda (aka Pradosh Chandra Mitter) and his friend Jatayu (aka Lal Mohon Ganguly) and Felu's cousin Topshe (aka Tapesh Ranjan Mitter) are seen in a taxi driving down VIP Road towards Dum Dum Airport in a taxi in the movie Bombaiyer Bombete.[citation needed]
