NCR Highways and Expressways updates

[Abhishek901]

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

[Abhishek901]

A mention of new expressways in this article.

To keep pace with the rapidly changing profile and size of the National Capital Region (NCR), the government has approved a new transportation plan for the region.

The integrated multi-modal transport plan seeks to build new expressways, upgrade national and state highways and build new rail lines, a regional rapid transit system, airport, new Metro systems, bus systems, bus terminals, logistic hubs and integrated freight complexes in the next 25 years.




The ambitious plan will need an investment of a whopping Rs 17 lakh crore.

The plan is based on the study commissioned by the NCR planning board two years ago. The plan was approved in a board meeting on November 11.

An official said: “ The board decided to initiate action for priority implementation of a region- wide rail- based system connecting various metropolitan and regional centres and subregional centres.” The plan proposes to build an extensive road network of 16 new regional expressways running across 1,300 km. The proposed expressways will be built in such a way that they can be extended further. For example, the proposed Delhi- Panipat Expressway can be extended to Chandigarh and the Delhi- Rewari expressway to Jaipur.

The plan proposes to set up an NCR Expressway Development Authority, besides spending Rs 26,000 crore to augment the capacities of the existing national and state highways.

The plan also suggests setting up wayside amenities at a cost of Rs 110 crore.

About 6,200 buses of different state transport services cater to intercity travel. By the next two decades, the number of buses required will jump to 37,000.
The plan hopes to augment bus fleets and set up depots at an estimated cost of Rs 25,873 crore.

Of this, 75 per cent has been proposed through the public- private- partnership model. Bus terminals will also be set up at a cost of Rs 3,539 crore.

The plan proposes to set up a rail rapid transit system along dedicated tracks with a modern communication system to enable “ safer, high- speed and high- frequency services”. This includes lines from Delhi to Panipat, Bhagpat, Meerut, Hapur, Khurja, Palwal, Rewari and Rohtak. At present, trains have to share tracks with faster trains, thus holding them up.

The plan proposes to build nine new lines, including Panipat- Meerut; Sonepat- Gohana; Sonepat- Jhajjar; Jhajjar- Gurgaon- Faridabad; and Meerut- Bhagpat- Sonepat. This will cost over Rs 14,000 crore.

An NCR rail network corporation has been proposed. New freight terminals will be developed at Khurja, Palwal, Rewari, Rohtak, Panipat and Meerut to allow faster movement of goods.

Buoyed by the success of the Metro in Delhi, the plan has proposed to build similar systems to link the other urban centres in the NCR. Eight new lines have been proposed to link areas such as Bahadurgarh- Rohtak, Kundli- Sonepat, Sonepat- Panipat, Ghaziabad- Hapur, Ghaziabad- Meerut, Manesar- Rewari, Gurgaon- Manesar, and Faridabad- Palwal. The existing lines originating from Delhi will be extended. It will cover a total length of 534 km at a cost of Rs 36,000 crore and will ferry 1.2 million passengers a day.

The plan backs the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to set up an airport in Greater Noida. The terminal is expected to cater to 40 million passengers a year.

The study says an NCR transport development fund should be created to raise resources.

Funds can be raised through the state and central annual budgets by levying user charges, generating advertising revenue, betterment levy, commercial exploitation of bus depots, terminals and market borrowings.

Though the board has approved the plan, it is yet to be seen if the respective state governments will stick to the deadline.

Source: Mail Today, Nov 16, 2009

[Abhishek901]

The laying of Delhi-Meerut Expressway has been approved by the Union ministry of surface transport, it is learnt. The Meerut Expressway, via Hazrat Nizammudin in Delhi, Dasna and Bhojpur to Meerut, is expected to be ready by the year 2013. The Expressway is likely to cost Rs 1,250 crore.

Its approval was confirmed by Ghaziabad district magistrate R.Ramesh Kumar last week.

With the proposed Expressway, traffic snarls from Modi Nagar to Meerut would become a thing of the past.

The commissioner of Meerut division has called for a report about land acquisition in and around Bhojpur village of Modi Nagar Tehsil.

The details of forests, temples, tubewells, etc in villages Vidhapur, Patti, Kalcheena, Umarala, Bhadjan , Chidyala, have also been called for, it is learnt.

The letter issued from the surface transport ministry received in Tehsil headquarters also mentions that government officials are now busy in connection with the Commonwealth Games.

The work on Meerut-Delhi Expressway will be taken in hand in 2011 after the Commonwealth Games.

The Tribune

[Abhishek901]

Crossposted from Indian Expressways thread

An aug 2009 article on this expy

This proposed 61km long expressway will change the development along the corridor and is one of the priorities of the highway regulator. The NHAI has already finalised alignment, and feasibility study will be over soon. Officials claim once completed, the travel-time between Delhi and Meerut may be reduced to approximately 45 minutes, from the usual two hours.

Officials say those commuting between Delhi and Ghaziabad, Indirapuram (NH-24) will benefit the most from this project. According to the proposal, the existing stretch in Delhi, which is being widened to eight lanes, would subsequently be converted to 16 lanes, letting commuters zip through the congested corridor during peak hours. A part of NH-24 - from Delhi to Dasna in Ghaziabad, will form one third of the expressway.

NHAI sources said eight more lanes would be added to the under-construction eight-lane grade separator at Ghazipur crossing. Delhi PWD has set April 2010 as deadline for completing the Ghazipur project.

How is it possible to widen it to 16 lanes within the city !! Widening upto 10 or 12 lanes can still be thought of but how they can pull up to 16 lanes is one's guess.

[Abhishek901]

Crossposted from Indian Expressways thread

The state government is set to change the route/alignment of the proposed eight-lane expressway, by aligning it with the Upper Ganga Canal instead of Hindon river.

The Upper Ganga Canal Expressway, popularly known as Hindon Expressway, will now stretch from Noida to Hardwar through Muzaffarnagar and Roorkee, instead of Noida to Hardwar via Saharanpur.

According to the government, the change was necessary in order to avoid problems in acquiring land on the original route. It is, however, not known if it is acceptable to the Uttarakhand government as the project involves the participation of the neighbouring state.

Last year, the state government had made a presentation before the Uttarakhand government and after a joint meeting the Uttrakhand government had accepted to bear the cost of building the Saharanpur-Dehradun stretch.

Now, the state government will again have to approach Uttarakhand with a fresh proposal for the 122-km Dehradun-Muzaffarnagar stretch.

The new route is much shorter than the original one. The length of the Upper Ganga Canal Expressway will be around 137 km within Uttar Pradesh, starting from NCR region to Muzaffarnagar. The length of the old route was 217 km.

According to officials, the expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal might become the first to be completed in UP as the land for the entire stretch on the new route is available with the Irrigation department.

“This new route seems to be the most viable. We have already given the job of conducting the feasibility study to a Mumbai-based firm called Infrastructure

Leasing & Financial Services Limited,” said J P Gupta, Additional Chief Executive Officer, UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority.

“The firm is expected to submit the report by December. With most of the land already available with a government department, we hope to start the project soon,” he added.

Indian Express

This expressway seems to be close to Delhi-Meerut expressway, and that too 8 lane. I seriously doubt viability of 2 such "wide" greenfield expressways when NH-58 is being upgraded.

Even the expressways which are expected to be lot busier than this would be less than 8 lane initially. Yamuna (Taj) expressway will be 6 lane, Western Peripheral expy will be 4 lane and Eastern Peripheral expy will be 6 lane initially, though all of them will be 8 lane eventually.

[Abhishek901]

Crossposted from Indian Expressways thread

The Uttar Pradesh government will develop a 170-km expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal (UGC) in collaboration with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (IIDC). The work on the project is proposed to start from April 2010 after the preliminary survey and bidding process is complete.
The proposed eight-lane access controlled expressway, to be developed on the right bank of UGC, will extend from Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Ghaziabad to the Uttarakhand border.

According to the state infrastructure development department, the government has adequate land with the state irrigation department for the project.

The expressway is expected to boost the industrial and economic development in the region, while the farmers will find it easier to send their produce to the national capital.

An agreement was recently signed between the UP Expressways Industrial Area Development Authority (UPEIDA) and IIDC, which is the advisory and project development wing of IL&FS.

UGC originates at Haridwar in Uttarakhand and traverses several western UP districts, such as Meerut, Bulandshahr, Aligarh and Etawah.

IIDC will soon start work on the survey and alignment of the expressway, and submit a comprehensive report. The company provides integrated professional services towards development of infrastructure projects from project conceptualisation to implementation.

As per the schedule, the Request for Qualification (RfQ) document would be available by January 22, while the pre-bid conference would be held between January 29 and February 5 to select the developer of the proposed expressway.

On February 26, Request for Proposal (RfP) document for financial bidding would be issued and scrutiny takes place on March 29. The government is hoping to award the contract to the successful bidder on March 31 allowing start of work thereafter.

Source: Realty Plus

[Abhishek901]

With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) set to finalize the alignment of a 61 km-long expressway next month, the travel time between Delhi and Meerut may be reduced to approximately 45 minutes from the usual two hours once the project is completed.

There is also some good news for daily commuters on the Delhi-Ghaziabad stretch of NH-24. According to the proposal, the existing stretch in Delhi, which is being widened to eight lanes, would subsequently be converted to 16 lanes, letting commuters zip through this congested corridor even during peak hours.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is set to finish the alignment of a 61 km-long expressway to Meerut, paving the way for a 45-minute ride from Delhi to the UP town. Also, NHAI sources said eight more lanes would be added to the under-construction eightlane grade separator at Ghazipur crossing.

The Central government had conceptualised the corridor three years ago to provide nonstop connectivity between the two cities in the NCR as a part of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) VI. Though earlier there was a proposal to widen the existing NH-58 to eight lanes, later the NHAI replaced it with constructing the expressway.

``We are on the job. The final alignment of the project would be complete by January, 2009. The road will take off from existing Nizamuddin bridge and would terminate in Meerut joining the proposed Ring Road around the city,'' said NHAI chief general manager H C Arora. He added the alignment issue was being work out with the PWD of UP government.

A part of NH-24 - from Delhi to Dasna in Ghaziabad will form one-third of the expressway, an NHAI official said. ``From Dasna it will be a new alignment. Every effort would be made to avoid built up areas on this corridor. Once the alignment is finalized, we will carry out feasibility survey. It will take another four months. Then things would move forward,'' Aora said.

He added since the stretch would be an access controlled highways, all traffic intersections would be done away with and all slow moving traffic including twowheelers and three-wheelers would not be allowed. As per government notifications, the speed limit on expressways is 90 kmph.

Sources said the project was conceptualized keeping in mind the growing daily trips between Meerut and Delhi. ``With traffic growing, despite all possible scope of widening of the NH-58, its almost impossible to provide non-stop flow on that stretch,'' said an NHAI official.

Although officials were non committal of the deadline claiming that only after the finalization of the project this could be set, the deadline for the NHDP VI is 2015. The project would cost approximately Rs 1200 crore.

Times of India. Dec 25, 2008

[Abhishek901]

Crossposted from Indian Expressways thread

Originally Posted by avikid

The Government has announced its plans to award four Expressway projects- the Vadodara-Mumbai, Bangalore-Chennai, New Delhi-Meerut and Kolkata-Dhanbad sections totalling 1,000 km, to be developed under the National Highways Development Project. "We will award these four projects by December," said Brahm Dutt, Transport Secretary. He added that the qualification norms for bidding for these projects would be simplified to enable larger participation by domestic firms.

The Transport Ministry had in November 2006 proposed these four Expresways. Last year, ten mega highways projects of 4,000 km each were proposed to be developed through public-private-partnership mode. The Ministry also proposed to develop real estate along another 18,000 km of the Expressways that it plans to build.

Source: Projectsmonitor

Jan 21, 2010

[Abhishek901]

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has started the process of acquiring land along National Highway No. 8 in Haryana and Rajasthan to expand the 225.6-km stretch between Gurgaon and Jaipur from four to six lanes.

Around 300 hectares of land in both states will be acquired. Eighty hectares fall in Haryana between Gurgaon and Shahjahan border.

The Rs 1,896.25 crore project is likely to be completed in June 2011.

This busy stretch of NH8 that passes through Kotputli has only four lanes at present. A major stretch of this road, 161 km, falls in Rajasthan while 64 km is in Haryana. In Haryana, its starts from the 42nd Milestone where Gurgaon Expressway has a terminal toll plaza.

On the completion of this project, the NH-8 stretch from Rao Tula Ram Marg in Delhi and Jaipur will become signal free. But commuters will have to pay toll tax.

The project is coming up on a build, operate and transfer basis. The company will charge toll for 12 years. The detail project report proposes an elevated stretch at Kotputli junction on NH-8. The rest of the stretch will be at ground level.

The entire process will take 2-3 months after which the land will be formally handed over to the concessionaire company. Gurgaon deputy commissioner RK Kataria said a special committee would submit the land compensation rate with the NHAI soon.

Hindustan Times. Nov 25, 2009

[Abhishek901]

After being delayed over and over again, the project of widening the National Highway (NH)-24 might soon see some development. The matter has been taken up after complaints from residents about the inordinate delay of the stretch, especially from Hapur to Brij Ghat. As per the original plan, NH-24 was to be widened to eight lanes. The work on the stretch started four years back. With the delay the project cost has escalated by Rs 17 , crore.

"The expansion of NH-24 is of utmost importance. Given the traffic load any delay will not be taken lightly The Ghaziabad . Development Authority (GDA) has already given Rs 15 crore and the Noida Authority is in the process of giving funds," says District Magistrate, Deepak Aggarwal. He also added that the work would definitely start by the end of January next year.

With delay in the project, bottlenecks have started forming on the stretch. "NH-24 will become a choke point soon if the District Administration does not take some action soon. There are traffic jams because of the increasing traffic load near the Indirapu ram Crossing and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) crossing.

The residents have complained to the District Administration that a six km stretch is yet to be handed over to the Setu Nigam. The stretch is to be completed in phases. According to the initial plan, the stretch from Hapur to Brij Ghat was to be completed first. "The stretch from Hapur was to be completed to make it accident free. Now with that also being delayed, we cannot have an eight-lane road even during the Commonwealth Games. Even as the road widening has been delayed, there are more and more housing projects announced by the GDA along the NH-24," says D. K. Mishra, a resident of Nyay Khand.

Hindustan Times. Dec 19, 2008

[Abhishek901]

The plan to widen National Highway 24 to eight lanes from UP Gate to Vijay Nagar got a boost with the Noida Authority and the Ghaziabad Development Authority depositing their share of Rs 15 crore each for the project.
The estimated project cost is Rs 90 crore. The National Highway Authority of India is supposed to bear half the cost – Rs 45 crore. The other 50 per cent is to be paid by the Noida Authority, the Ghaziabad Development Authority and the UP Housing & Development Board. Their contribution comes to Rs 15 crore each.

The project will lessen traffic jams at UP Gate, Khoda crossing, NIBM crossing, Model Town chowki, Shipra Sun City crossing and Vijay Nagar crossing. Moreover, it will make access to Indirapuram, Vaishali and Kaushambi easy. Connectivity to Noida Sector 62 and Electronic City too will become smooth.
Ghaziabad Development Authority secretary Raj Kumar Sacchan said: “GDA has paid Rs 15 crore. NHAI will announce the construction schedule once the UP Housing & Development Board pays up.”

Noida senior project engineer L.K. Gupta said the Noida Authority had already deposited Rs 15 crore. “Although the authority had planned three underpasses, now only one underpass project is being undertaken which connects Noida Sector 62 with Indirapuram near Shipra Mall.”

The UP Housing & Development Board, however, is still waiting for its headquarters to approve the payment.

Federation of Indirapuram RWAs coordinator Kuldip Saxena felt that the area needed the underpasses to ease traffic on the NH 24 stretch. “Earlier, the Noida Authority and the GDA had proposed three underpasses — one near Shipra Mall, another at Kala Pathar and the third near the Indirapuram police station. It appears the project has been shelved,” said Saxena.

Noida residents too feel the need for more underpasses. “Sector 62 residents cross to Indirapuram for shopping. Likewise, Indirapuram residents cross over to Noida for hospitals. The underpass projects should not be shelved,” said S.M. Singh, Federation of Noida Sector 62 Apartments RWAs president.

Hindustan Times. July 4, 2008

[Abhishek901]

Even as construction is on at the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway on NH 8, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is set to convert the 57.3-km-long stretch from Delhi to Rohtak in Haryana to six-laned.

NHAI has already put out tenders for the major widening work, incorporating it under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) Phase III which involves upgradation of 10,000 kms of national highways across the country.

The project to six-lane the highway stretch will cost Rs 486 crore. Once six-laned, the stretch will become an access-controlled route as intended for the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway. This stretch on NH 10 is just two-lane wide at present, unable to handle the heavy traffic volume in the area.

“The section of NH 10 from Delhi to Rohtak sees very heavy traffic with 25,000-30,000 passenger car units (PCUs) passing through most intersections. There are some 2-3 other national highways and major roads which also intersect the two-lane stretch adding to the traffic load. Also, there is very mixed traffic here from passenger vehicles movement between Delhi and Haryana to goods movement. On account of these issues, this section was included in NHDP-III. The tenders are out already and will be awarded by March 2007 after which the contractor will start work,” said a senior NHAI official.

Not only will the widened highway ease traffic flow to and from Delhi into Rohtak side of Haryana but will also develop the Bahadurgarh-Rohtak section. The six-laning will start from Km 29.70 on NH 10 and complete at Km 87 even as the existing two lanes will be strengthened.

The project will also include construction of two bypasses enroute to Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. A 13-km-long bypass will skirt NH 10 clear of Bahadurgarh and another 24.74-km-long bypass will lead upto Rohtak town. Land acquisition for the project is largely completed except for some area required for the twin bypasses.

“Some four vehicular underpasses and pedestrian passages will be incorporated along the route. There are 4-5 major intersections leading to Najafgarh, Jhajjar, Sonepat and other areas which will have to be taken care of through grade separators and interchanges besides railway over bridges, restrengthened pavements and traffic signage.

Provision will also be made for service lanes along the area so people living in villages and settlements along the highway can cross over with ease. The Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project will ensure a design speed of 80-100 km per hour once the six-laning is completed,” added the official.

Source. Dec 14, 2006

[Euromast]

Gr8 thread Abhishek. Kya thread hai:-)

[bharatiya]

Awesome thread Abhishek! Never realized how many countless proposals and u/c expressways are going on in the NCR. And so many 6/8 lane projects at that!

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by Euromast

Gr8 thread Abhishek. Kya thread hai:-)

Aapko pasand aaya hame achchha laga

Originally Posted by bharatiya

Awesome thread Abhishek! Never realized how many countless proposals and u/c expressways are going on in the NCR. And so many 6/8 lane projects at that!

Mainly because of very high vehicular count in NCR and its vast relatively low dense urban sprawl similar to Los Angeles makes it necessary to build regional expressway to make commute shorter within NCR.

[truckin]

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

NHAI starts acquiring land to widen Gurgaon-Jaipur highway (NH-8))

Hindustan Times. Nov 25, 2009

I was on this highway a month back, and from what I saw land has been acquired in Rajasthan part, and the widening work is already underway.

Here's a video regarding this

[Abhishek901]

There is no sound in this video . Anybody knows how to fix this ?

[Illusionist]

there is no sound i think. i have asked the poster about the sound. lets see

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by Illusionist

there is no sound i think. i have asked the poster about the sound. lets see

Without sound we cannot make out most of the things except that it will have service lanes and flyovers. I couldn't understand what they wanted to convey when they showed under construction patches in the expressway.

[Euromast]

There is no sound in this video, I had posted this in Jaipur thread I think long time ago