NCR Highways and Expressways updates

[shanware]

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

Length of Upper Ganga Canal expressway has been increased by 8 km from 141 km to 149 km and now it will be linked to NH-58 near Pukarji (Muzzafar Nagar). UP govt will discuss with Uttarakhand govt to extend the expressway to Haridwar.

Authority said this project will be successful because of links with Eastern Peripheral expressway and Yamuna expressway.

Pre-bid meeting has been extended from 8 March to 24 March and date of announcement of developer's selection has been extended from 29 March to 22 April.

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[IndiansUnite]

Great news and a big slap on NHAI for delaying their expressway projects.

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

It's route is quite parallel to proposed 8 lane Delhi-Meerut expressway and NH-58. So many wide roads would be an overkill in short term. Rather an 8 lane expressway could have been built in east direction instead of North-east.

and head where? The route of this expressway will definitely have a greater volume of traffic than an eastward expy connecting to Moradabad, if that's what you want the east terminal as.

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by IndiansUnite

and head where? The route of this expressway will definitely have a greater volume of traffic than an eastward expy connecting to Moradabad, if that's what you want the east terminal as.

Yeah towards Moradabad, terminating at Bareilly. Regarding traffic volume, it is going to be highly variable on any of these expressways (many times higher near Delhi end).

For example, we can divide UGC expressway in 3 parts -

1. Greater Noida - Gzb section which will be more like urban freeway like DGE (Dark green)
2. Gzb - Meerut section which will be like Delhi - Agra or Yamuna expy with medium traffic (purple)
3. Beyond Meerut section. God knows who will be there to drive on 8 lane road after Meerut. (light green)





Similarly Delhi-Meerut expy will have 2 sections -

1. The urban freeway segment till Gzb (red)
2. Gzb - Meerut (pink)

This Gzb-Meerut (no.2) is an overkill with 16 lanes of expy and 4-6 lanes of hwy. Both of the expressway have different alignment in urban region (red and dark green), so there is no clash, plus the intra region traffic itself will be high to sustain them.

Instead what they could have done was to have red and dark green segments as per the plan and then merge the two roads into one (Gzb-Meerut). Also I don't understand why an 8 lane expressway has to be 8 lane at every place even if there is no traffic. It's better to rationalize the lanes. Have 10-12 lane urban segments and 4-6 lane countryside segments.

Regarding and east going expy, I believe traffic would be pretty high till Gzb end (Garhmukteshwar) or at least till Hapur and it can be like an urban freeway (dark blue) and after that the lanes can be reduced to 6 and it can continue till Bareilly with an option to reach Lucknow or Kanpur in future.

[IndiansUnite]

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

3. Beyond Meerut section. God knows who will be there to drive on 8 lane road after Meerut. (light green)

People heading towards Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee, Haridwar/Hrishikesh and Dehradun. Till the expressway isn't extended to Haridwar, they can take the UGC expressway to the link expressway connecting to Muzaffarnagar and from there NH58 to their destination.

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

Regarding and east going expy, I believe traffic would be pretty high till Gzb end (Garhmukteshwar) or at least till Hapur and it can be like an urban freeway (dark blue) and after that the lanes can be reduced to 6 and it can continue till Bareilly with an option to reach Lucknow or Kanpur in future.

In the future, not now. There aren't many urban areas when you head east as compared to the north-east. That's why the UGCE is a better option for now and rightfully selected by the UP Expy IDA to execute.

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by IndiansUnite

In the future, not now.

Yep. Maybe 10-15 years

Originally Posted by IndiansUnite

There aren't many urban areas when you head east as compared to the north-east. That's why the UGCE is a better option for now and rightfully selected by the UP Expy IDA to execute.

I am not doubting UGC expy as such. I am doubting the need of having 16 lanes (UGC + Delhi-Meerut) almost parallel from Gzb to Meerut. I don't believe that we would need that many lanes even in the next 30 years. That's even wider than downtown connector and most of the eastshore freeway of US, one of the busiest highway sections in that country.

That's why I talked about merging of the 2 expys after Gzb.

[IndiansUnite]

I'll be glad as well if they plan and co-develop a single expressway but that plan is just not going to be initiated. The need for the UGC arose because of NHAI's lethargic project execution and the UP govt is not going to blink first. For once I'm glad that the right hand is imitating what the left hand is doing. If the state government sticks to its project tendering time frame, then I reckon NHAI will drop its plans. It could go either way though with the developer complaining about the rival NHAI expressway. Let's see what happens.

[Abhishek901]

In that case I would like to see Delhi-Meerut expy as it caters to existing demand and future demand. It starts from Nizamuddin and passes through already developed areas of Delhi and Gzb, while UGC is looking for future demand from far off places of G. Noida and Gzb.

[gurucool]

An off topic question but since its regarding the discussions above,I want to ask.I am planning a trip to Meerut from Delhi for my friends marriage.Which route sould I follow.

[Abhishek901]

NH-58 is the only route which I know (maybe because it is the only route for Meerut ). From Delhi you will have to follow GT road and after crossing Hindon river in Ghaziabad, you will have to turn left for NH-58.

[Abhishek901]

Because of such large scale exercise, permission will have to be sought from central govt's environment ministry and state govt. This can delay the project.

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[IndiansUnite]

Another proposal by the UP government

UP okays expressway to connect Greater Noida with Kanpur

Lucknow: Consequent to the enthusiastic response that the Rs 7,000 crore, 150-km-long 8-lane access controlled Upper Ganga Canal Expressway (UGCE) from Sanauta Bridge in Greater Noida to Purkazi in Uttarakhand got from all top private infrastructure development companies, the Uttar Pradesh government has now decided to give its go-ahead with another ambitious expressway project on the banks of the Upper Ganga Canal. The technical bids will be opened on Wednesday.



The new project, which will run from Sanauta Bridge in Greater Noida to Kanpur is a more ambitious project than the one till Purkazi, as its length will be three times that of the earlier project.

The UP Cabinet has given its in-principle approval for appointing a consultant and conducting a feasibility report on the project to Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA), the nodal agency for all expressways in the state.

Speaking to FE, an official associated with the project said that while the project is yet to get a formal name, it will also be built on the right side of the Upper Ganga Canal as the one that is going to be constructed from Sanauta to Purkazi.

“It is being visualised initially as a six-lane expressway and is likely to be on the same constructed on the same canal bank model as the Upper Ganga Canal Expressway. However, when compared with the UGCE, this would be a more ambitious one, as its length will be 380 kms, which is almost three times the size of the Sanauta Bridge-Purkazi project”. While the finer details of the project are yet to be worked out, the tentative route of the expressway would be from the fringes of the national capital in Greater Noida and will pass through Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Etah, Etawah and end at Kanpur.

“Once the consultant for the project is appointed, the technical and financial feasibility of the project will be clear, as will be the fact as to how much land is already available with the state irrigation department and how much more is required ,” said the official.

[IndiansUnite]

7 bids received for Upper Ganga Canal Expressway

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government’s prestigious Rs 7,000 crore, 150-km, 8-laned access controlled Upper Ganga Canal Expressway project, that would run from Greater Noida to Purkazi, on the Uttarakhand border, has received a fairly good response. As many as seven companies submitted technical bids for the project. While Jaypee Associates, IRB Infrastructure, ESC Apollo and Isolux submitted bids individually, some companies formed consortium to bid for the project. Reliance Infrastructure and Reliance Infra Ventures formed a consortium as did Shreya Infrastructure with PNC and Galstar and Era Infrastructure tied up with Sidmost.

The bid evaluation committee, which opened the bids, will now evaluate the bids and check their responsiveness and those companies which would be found technically acceptable, will be short listed and asked to submit financial bids.

Speaking to FE, an official said that the consultant will submit its report to the evaluation committee in a week’s time, after which the project will be taken forward. It may be mentioned that the UP Government has tried to add sweeteners to the project to make it attractive for private developers. In fact, the government has framed it in a way that private developers not only bid for it but in fact put a negative bid. It is in step with this mindset, that the government is offering 571 hectares for right of way (ROW) of trunk expressway in addition to another 100 hectares for land parcels free of cost.

[Abhishek901]

Good news. This expressway is really going very fast after remaining in paper for a long time. Now I am equally optimistic for its extension to Kanpur.

[numb.soul]

whats with mayawati and expressways

[Abhishek901]

This 8 lane expressway will start from UP Gate (Delhi-Ghaziabad border, as against Nizamuddin Bridge earlier) and will terminate at Hapur bypass in Meerut via Dasna, Muradnagar, Modinagar. NHAI will design and construct this expressway. This 64 km expressway will also connect to NH-24, 58, 91 and Eastern Peripheral expressway. NHAI has dropped 8 laning of NH-58 from Ghaziabad to Meerut in favour of this expressway and another 8 lane expressway (Upper Ganga Canal expressway).

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[Abhishek901]

The government today said it plans to build four expressways in the country, besides five ring roads in Uttar Pradesh.

The ministry plans to construct four expressways, including Delhi-Dasna-Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, besides Dhanbad-Kolkata, Bengalaru-Chennai and Vadodra-Mumbai, Minister of state for surface transport R P N Singh told reporters here.

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Times of India

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The twin expressways being built around Delhi to take trucks and unwanted traffic off Delhi roads — Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway and Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) — are set to miss their deadlines once again.

Haryana government officials said that since the KMP Expressway developer is still waiting for clearance from Railways to construct rail-overbridges (ROBs) at three spots between NH-1 and NH-8, the entire corridor will not be ready for non-stop traffic flow by December 2010.

The first segment of the four-lane expressway between Manesar (NH-8) and Palwal (NH-2) will be opened in the first week of November.

Haryana government officials said the developer has informed them it is yet to get the go-ahead for construction of the three ROBs. "The developer maintains the project will be ready apart from the bridges. We might consider manning the railway crossings. If it does work and if trucks are taken off Delhi roads, we don't see a problem," said Haryana industry secretary Y S Malik.

Though partial tolling is allowed in the corridor, it is not yet clear whether the state will allow the developer to charge toll on the stretches where traffic flow is not non-stop. "It's too early to comment," Malik said.

A KMP Expressway Ltd spokesperson said they were pursuing the case of the bridges with the railways. "But we are confident of completing the project by year-end," he added.

The EPE is still stuck in the initial stages. Recently, the Planning Commission asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take the project off its bidding list and to float a fresh tender after restructuring of the project from six lanes to four lanes. This is the second time the expressway project will be restructured in the past two years. A tender for the expressway will now be floated for a third time.

Sources, however, said reducing the number of lanes to four would defeat the purpose of the expressway, which should be designed for vehicles travelling at speeds up to 120 kmph.

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[Hindustani]

Pathetic English grammer on a national newspaper headlines. Whats " Haryana to go it alone...."?? Either say "Do it alone on...." or " Go alone on...."

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

Hindustan Times