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#1 · (Edited)
This thread is meant for "new" expressways and highway upgrades of NCR. Since there are already lot of expressways operational, under construction/implementation and many more are proposed, therefore we can have updates for these projects at a single place.

Below is a a list of expressways in NCR. Number of lanes (service lanes in brackets), length and opening year is also mentioned. This list will be updated as soon as I receive more updates.

List of Expressways in NCR

Existing

  • DND Flyway | 8 lanes | 5.5 km | 2001
  • Noida-Greater Noida Expressway | 6 (+4) lanes | 23.5 km | 2002
  • Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway | 8 (+4/6) lanes | 28 km | 2008

Under Construction

  • Western Peripheral Expressway (KMP Expressway) | 4 lanes initially, 8 lanes ultimately | 135 km | 2010
  • Yamuna (/Taj) Expressway | 6 lanes initially, 8 lanes ultimately | 165 km | 2010-2013
  • Greater Noida-Ghaziabad Mini Expressway | 6 lanes | _ | _
  • Northern Peripheral Expressway (Gurgaon) | 8 lanes | _ | _

Under Implementation

  • Eastern Peripheral Expressway | 6 lanes initially, 8 lanes ultimately | 135 km | 2013-2014
  • Delhi-Meerut Expressway | 8 lanes | 61 km | _
  • Upper Ganga Canal Expressway (erstwhile Hindon Expressway) | 8 lanes | 149 km | _
  • Ganga Expressway | 8 lanes | 1047 km | _

Proposed

  • Delhi - Ghaziabad
  • Delhi - Panipat (or Delhi - Chandigarh)
  • Delhi - Bahadurgarh - Rohtak
  • Delhi - Faridabad - Palwal
  • Delhi - Baghpat
  • Faridabad - Noida - Greater Noida
  • Southern Peripheral Expressway (Gurgaon)
  • Gurgaon - Manesar - Dharuhera (or Delhi - Jaipur)
  • Ghaziabad - Hapur
  • Ghaziabad - Modinagar - Meerut
  • Panipat - Rohtak



List of Highways in NCR

Highway name | Number of lanes in Delhi / in NCR (outside Delhi)

Major National Highways

  • NH-1 | 8 (+4) / 6
  • NH-2 | 6 (+4) / 4-6
  • NH-8 | 8 (+4/6) / 6-8
  • NH-10 | 8 (+4) / 6
  • NH-24 | 8 / 6-8
  • NH-58 | _ / 4-6
  • NH-91 | _ / 4-6

Other National Highways

  • NH-71
  • NH-71 A
  • NH-71 B
  • NH-119
 
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#73 ·
Congested Dhaula Kuan - RTR Stretch Set To Widen

Long traffic jams on the 2.7-km-stretch between Dhaula Kuan and RTR Flyover on National Highway No. 8 are likely to be over by October as the National Highway of Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded the contract of strengthening this stretch to a private sector firm for Rs. 11.56 crore.
The entire expenditure of the project would be borne by the NHAI itself and the stretch would not be tolled, the NHAI officials have clarified.

However, decision on the pro- posal of constructing an ele- vated 8-lane stretch on this road parallel to the under-con- struction Metro Airport Expressway Line on this 6-lane NH-8 has been put off because of lack of time left for the start of the Commonwealth Games, NHAI officials said.

According to NHAI officials, the contract included overlay of the existing six-lane road by another layer, setting up of median fencing, crash barriers, road signage and horticulture and maintenance of the stretch and services for a year.

R K Singh, chief general manager (CGM), NHAI said it was a short term bid invited by the authority in view of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in October.

The idea was to make the stretch easy for motorists who come here either from Gurgaon Expressway (RTR side) or from the Dhaula Kuan interchange, Singh added.

As of now, traffic movement gets affected adversely, espe- cially during the peak hours, between Dhaula Kuan and RTR flyover because of narrow and uneven roads.

While commenting on the proposal of constructing an ele- vated eight-lane stretch on the existing road, Singh said since very little time remained for the Games to begin, the deci- sion had been put off and the matter would be taken up after the Games were over.

“NHAI has already written to the Delhi Government for taking over the stretch between Dhaula Kuan and RTR flyover and constructing an eight-lane elevated road here on its own,“ Singh said.

NHAI has already submit- ted the feasibility study on the eight-lane elevated stretch proj- ect to the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre (UTTIPAC) for its approval.

Conducted by a private sec- tor consultancy firm, Stup Consultants, the study had sug- gested an eight-lane wide ele- vated stretch along the under- construction Metro Airport Expressway Line, which is par- allel to the existing six-lane National Highway No. 8.
Hindustan Times
 
#74 · (Edited)
^^

Once this stretch is elevated (after CW games) and the mess at the RTR/south campus intersection is sorted out, the roads leading up to IGI airport will at least begin to do justice to the plans for the airport itself!

About 8-laning this stretch though, at the point that the Metro Airport Express actually crosses the road (after the big left turn) the metro pillars have left barely enough room for 2.5 lanes on the side going from Dhaula Kuan towards the airport. I wonder if they will add one/two lanes around the pillar at this spot.

While elevating the road, hopefully they're planning to just go over the Metro Airport Express line at this spot.
 
#75 ·
The elevated road needs to go over the airport line at that place instead of going along as the airport line cuts across the road. Also the airport line crosses the road (shifts from left side of the road to right side) very gradually keeping in mind its high speed. This means that the elevated road cannot have any pillar for hundreds of metres at this spot, otherwise it would clash with airport line. I wonder how will they build such a long pillar-less 8 lanes section, and that too at very large height.

@ Varun: How can they go along or between the 2.5 lanes section you mentioned ? There are no pillars under the viaduct in that place, rather there are horse-shoe shaped colums supporting the viaduct. The elevated road cannot go under the horizontal arm of the horse-shoe coloum. It has to go above it.
 
#76 · (Edited)
@ Varun: How can they go along or between the 2.5 lanes section you mentioned ? There are no pillars under the viaduct in that place, rather there are horse-shoe shaped colums supporting the viaduct. The elevated road cannot go under the horizontal arm of the horse-shoe coloum. It has to go above it.
That's what I said - the elevated road when constructed has to go above the metro line at this spot.

While relaying the road before the CW games (maybe I shouldn't have said 8-laning because they just mention "strengthening" the existing 6-lane road) they will have to negotiate this spot and perhaps take one lane around the pillar, while going from Dhula Kuan towards airport.

The horse-shoe shaped columns only straddle the carriageway going from the airport towards Dhaula Kuan. For the other carriageway there are these two huge square-ish pillars (the type with tapering cantilevers for crowns), one on each side of the carriageway, leaving a little more than 2 lanes between them for traffic moving from Dhaula Kuan to airport. If they don't lay at least one lane around the huge pillar on the left (the pillar on the right is in the median), this spot will be a bottleneck till the elevated road is constructed.

Coming back to the elevated road, the way the stretch from Subroto Park to Gurgaon has been designed/constructed, the elevated parts of the road keep dipping down to ground level to allow for exit/entry ramps. I'm assuming this new elevated road will dip down once before meeting the existing elevated road at the RTR Marg/NH8 intersection, as opposed to being merged directly with the elevated road.

If they indeed plan to do this (i.e. have the road dip down), it will cause a problem because in quick succession (moving from Dhaula Kuan towards the airport) there is: 1. the big left turn (which of course needs to be negotiated with the elevated road), 2. the metro line crossing, and then 3. the existing elevated road's beginning point.

If there was more distance between the big left turn and the metro line crossing point, and if there was more space between the metro pillars at this point, it was conceivable that the elevated road could have been brought down before the metro line crossing and made to pass under it. However due to the short distance between these two points, and lack of space between the pillars, the elevated road will have to be made to go over the metro line, and made to come down after the metro line.

Hopefully there will be enough space between the metro line crossing point and the beginning of the existing elevated road to allow for this descent and exit/entry ramps.

Of course if they plan to just join the existing and new elevated roads together and create elevated exit/entry ramps, this problem will not exist.
 
#80 ·
^^ to be very frank hero Honda chowk badly needs a flyover...people get stuck in a hour long traffic jams....both in morning and evening....its really getting very frustrated for employes on that part of gurgaon....

people have resigned from many companies located there..simple reason being that they can't handle that much traffic tensions...

so yes , i hope they take some actions soon..

this issue is also bringing down the land value in manesar as well..
 
#88 ·
UP asks Delhi to pay Rs 100 cr to elevate Ganga expressway

Cash-strapped Delhi Government has been asked to pay Rs 100 crore by Uttar Pradesh to make the Upper Ganga expressway elevated on a stretch near Bhagirathi through which major pipelines supplying water to the national capital pass.

The proposed 170 km long Upper Ganga Canal Expressway will connect Greater Noida with Haridwar.

The UP government told Delhi that the expressway will have to be made elevated to ensure that water supply to Sonia Vihar Treatment Plant in the national capital does not get affected.

"The Uttar Pradesh Government told us to pay Rs 100 crore to make a portion of the Expressway elevated," Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta said.

The argument of the UP government for seeking the amount is that the portion of the expressway will have to be elevated only to ensure that water supply to Delhi is not interrupted and so Delhi will have to pay the additional expenses.

Asked whether Delhi Government was ready to pay the amount, Mehta said the government was going through a difficult financial position because of the massive spending it has incurred in developing various infrastructure as part of preparation for the Commonwealth Games.

"We hope to settle the issue through dialogue," Mehta said avoiding a direct reply.

The irrigation department of the Uttar Pradesh government has already acquired land for the 170 km long expressway.

An agreement was signed earlier this year between the UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority and consultant ILFS Infrastructure Development Corporation for implementation of the project.
The first line should read that the cash strapped Delhi government has been asked by an absolute pauper UP government.....
 
#90 ·
Traffic snarls on NH1, NH2 to end by August

By August-end, commuters can expect relief from traffic snarls on NH-1 and NH-2 while entering Delhi or going out of the city. One carriageway of the Mukarba Chowk-Sanghu border stretch on NH-1 will be opened by July-end and another carriageway of Badarpur flyover will be operational by August.

At a meeting chaired by Union road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath on Friday the NHAI officials gave a commitment to Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit that all road widening, improvement and beautification works being carried out by the authority would be completed by September-end.

"Dikshit wanted all projects on national highways to be completed by mid-September. Nath told her the entire 13-km stretch of NH-1 which is being widened and both carriageways of the Badarpur flyover will be completed by September-end," said a ministry official.
Times of India (Full story)
 
#91 ·
Northern peripheral road tenders soon

Gurgaon:
With the state sanctioning Rs 70 crore and the Detailed Project Report (DPR) ready, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has set the ball rolling for the 18.5-km Northern Peripheral Road (NPR), also called the Dwarka Expressway.


“The DPR is ready and we will soon begin the tendering process. If all goes as per plan, work on the stretch should begin in the next four months,” HUDA superintending engineer Pankaj Kumra told Newsline. Due to litigation, work can begin on only a 12.5-km stretch connecting Dwarka and National Highway 8.


“HUDA has put land acquisition for the road on priority so that people who have booked properties can be assured proper connectivity,” said Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner Rajender Kataria.



The northern and southern peripheral roads are integral to the Gurgaon-Manesar Masterplan 2025. The roads are expected to take away up to 40 per cent of traffic from the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway
 
#92 · (Edited)
No More Road Blocks: Expressway Work Finally Set To Start





Haryana allots Rs 132-crore for Northern Peripheral oad Expressway that was caught in litigations for three yearsThe proposed 150etre wide and 18-km-long orthern Peripheral Road PR) Expressway is finally set take off. The expressway was uck in a legal wrangle between e government and the people hose houses needed to be emolished to construct it.

The Haryana government as formally approved a budgof Rs 132 crore for the projt that was envisaged along ith the 16-km-long Southern eripheral Road (SPR) in the aster Plan 2021 notified three ars ago in 2007.

The NPR is the widest pressway of the country.

The Haryana Urban evelopment Authority UDA) officials said since 14 km of the total NPR stretch was igation-free, the work on it ould start first at a budget of s 67 crore.

"After having received a een signal on the project for budget of Rs 132 crore, we ould soon float tenders for the 14-km patch," said a senior HUDA official.

He said the work on the rest 4-km stretch will start later when the litigation on it and the disputes with the property owns was resolved.
The Haryana government as already released hundreds residential and commercial rojects to private developers.has also taken about Rs 4,000 crore of external development harges from them for providg master infrastructure such roads, sewerage and drainage stem for the new projects.

It was out of acute pressure om the private developers that e Haryana government had tempted to get rid off the NPR oject and had approached the ational Highway Authority of dia (NHAI) urging it to take it over. However, the NHAI too had turned down the request.
According to the HUDA officials, the remaining 4-km patch had about 700 metres running through an SEZ, 1,175 metres in properties of Palam Vihar, 300 metres in village Kherki Daula and 1,000 metres in proposed railway over bridge.
The HUDA officials said the state government had offered plots to the property owners whose structures and land came under the alignment of the NPR in sector 45 under Ashiana Scheme and the disputes will soon be over paving way for the work to start on the rest of the stretch of NPR.

WORK BEGINS ON SPR Finally part of the work of construction of 90-metre wide Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) has taken off.

The road connects National Highway-8 with Faridabad Road and further MG Road.

Cutting of Aravali Hills and the earth work has started on the 2.1-km stretch between Sector 55/56 and Faridabad Road. It will be completed within four months.

According to HUDA officials has awarded the project costing Rs. 7.5 crore to a private company.

After its completion, the residents of DLF City (Phase -V), Sushant Lok-II and III, Sector 55/56/57 and other HUDA sectors of the area will get third direct connectivity with Faridabad Road. Currently there are two connecting roads through Sector 42 and 53.
The SPR and NPR together would form a ring around Gurgaon and connect Palam Vihar and MG Road through NH-8 near village Kherki Daula.

So far the town and country planning department has issued close to hundred licences to private sector developers for setting up residential and commercial projects along the expressways.

Since then, the developers have been pressuring the Haryana government to start the projects.

Ajit Singh, the owner of the company that received the project, said the work would have started had the permission to cut the Aravali Hills come in time from the Union Environment Ministry. ON RIGHT TRACK 150-metre-w wide and 18-km long are the dimensions of the Northern Peripheral Road Rs 132 crore is the budget approved for the NPR project by the Haryana government The project was envisaged with the Southern Peripheral Road in Master Plan 2021 notified in 2007 . 90-metre is the SPR's width SPR connects NH-8 and with Faridabad Road and MG Road SPR and NPR will form a ring around Gurgaon. They will link Palam Vihar and MG Road via NH-8 near


Source: Hindustan Times By Sanjeev Ahuja No More Road Blocks: Expressway Work Finally Set To Start
 
#99 ·
Work starts on Gurgaon-Faridabad highway

By May 2011, people will be able to zoom past on the four lane 24.3 kms Gurgaon-Faridabad road. The work on the widening of the Gurgaon-Faridabad Road from the existing two lanes to 4 lanes has begun.

To be a tolled road, for which about 6,800 trees along the 12 km Gurgaon-Faridabad Road have been chopped off in the Faridabad stretch, 2,600 more trees on the Gurgaon side are to be felled by the Haryana Forest Development Corporation for the work from Gurgaon side to begin.



Reliance Infrastructure had bagged this BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) project of four laning of the highway along with the widening and strengthening of Ballabhgarh-Sohna road with concession period 17 years at Rs 780 crore. It was the first of its kind road project on BOT basis undertaken by the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department of the Haryana government.

For improvement or upgradation, both bituminous and concrete pavements, would be provided. In addition, some links of the roads like MCF road, crusher zone road and Pali Bakhri road will be improved as a part of scope of work. The total length of roads covered under the project would be 66 km.

Even though it would be a toll road, certain categories of vehicles would be exempted from payment of toll. These vehicles include two wheelers, tractor trolley carrying agricultural produce, defence vehicles, ambulances and funeral vans, police vehicles, fire-fighting vehicles, etc.


This is the present status of the road:
 
#102 ·
KMP expressway to open by June 2011

KMP e-way to open by June 2011


The company constructing Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway (also known as Western Peripheral Expressway) on Monday assured the Haryana Government that the project would be completed in June 2011. It also assured that the partial 50-km stretch between Manesar and Palawal would be opened in February 2011.
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"Some of the land is still to be transferred to us following litigation issues. We are going to have enough skilled manpower soon and this will speed up work. Skilled labour had been diverted for CWG and T3 projects. We have sought permission to open partially in February 2011 and fully in June 2011," Kohli said.
 
#105 ·
All those encroachments will have to go as I think the highway will have service lanes also. And anyways at the crossings where flyovers will be built, encroachments have to go to make space available not only for a 6 lane flyover but also 4-6 lane surface road along the flyover for exits.
 
#106 ·
yes u are right the highway will have service lanes too ....but what u are calling encroachments are not encroachments actually....they are industrial units nd malls nd offices nd warehouses which are govt. approved...they would be compensated IMO.....
 
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