NCR Highways and Expressways updates

[shanware]

"Haryana to go it alone" is now considered acceptable usage. Funny language English is, no ? Here's a couple of headlines from around the world.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35607825

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...nking-reform/1

[Hindustani]

Hmmm. After all, we are living in post-GW Bush era. He really made a mockery out of English language. Now seems like normal grammer. I need to get with the program looks like.

[IndiansUnite]

The contract for the four laning of NH71 from Rohtak to Bawal has been handed over -

JMC Projects (India) bags NHAI's Rohtak-Bawal project

MUMBAI: JMC Projects (India), a subsidiary of Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, today said it has bagged a project from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to construct a four-lane highway between Rohtak and Bawal in Haryana.

This is the first build own operate transfer (BOOT) project bagged by JMC and is expected to be operational in the next 36-months, a release issued here said.

The project has been won along with SREI Infrastructure as a consortium partner. The total project cost will be in the range of Rs 1,000 crore, the release said.

It (the project) will be executed on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (toll) basis with a concession period of 27-years, including the construction period.

JMC's Director Manish Muhnot said, "We are expanding on the value-chain, from EPC expertise to ownership of assets. The Government's focus on expediting road projects augurs well for the company and we are keen to play our role in the process by getting involved in more road projects, both on EPC contracting and BOOT."

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[Euromast]

There was a Plan to make ARB expressway. But I hope if they could extend four laneing upto Ambala.

[IndiansUnite]

The ARB expressway was a non starter. There hasn't been any news about it for more than 1 year now. There isn't any NH that directly connects Rohtak with Ambala. However the NHAI has also contracted out the four laning of NH71A which runs between Rohtak and Panipat. From Panipat, Ambala is some 110kms as you know.

Jan 5: Sadbhav Engineering bags project from NHAI

Sadbhav Engineering today said it has bagged a road project from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

"The proposed total cost of development of the project stands at Rs 1,350 crore," Sadbhav Engineering said in a statement to the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

The scope of the road project includes four-laning of Rohtak to Panipat section of National Highway-71A in Haryana on BOT (build-operate-transfer) basis.

The concession period of the project is twenty-five years that includes construction period of 910 days from the appointed date, it added.

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The four laning of both NH71 and NH71A should form a pretty good north-south corridor and another route to bypass Delhi apart from the KMP expressway.

[Abhishek901]

It will surely help in decongesting bypass routes in and around Delhi. Something similar needs to be done from UP side also.

Originally Posted by Euromast

There was a Plan to make ARB expressway. But I hope if they could extend four laneing upto Ambala.

Is it same as the North-South (and East-West) expressways proposed by Haryana govt ?

[Euromast]

I donot know anything about North South expressways.

Its gr8 if they are four laneing NH71A and NH1 Will be six laned . I think they are already working on section between Panipat & Jallandhar

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by Euromast

I donot know anything about North South expressways.

Its gr8 if they are four laneing NH71A and NH1 Will be six laned . I think they are already working on section between Panipat & Jallandhar

I think they are. Panipat-Delhi is already 6 lane (or I guess most of it). Delhi section of NH-1 is being 8 laned and made signal free with multiple flyovers since last 10 years .

[LovishBoy]

6 laning is in full swing between panipat and ambala. Have no idea whats progress in punjab.

[Euromast]

Between Panipat & Delhi Border, they are still working on the six lanes, Its not complete yet. God Knows when will they complete the stretch between Mukerba chowk to Delhi border.Yes its been 10 years since they started. They changed contractors and all that you know.

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

I think they are. Panipat-Delhi is already 6 lane (or I guess most of it). Delhi section of NH-1 is being 8 laned and made signal free with multiple flyovers since last 10 years .

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by Euromast

Between Panipat & Delhi Border, they are still working on the six lanes, Its not complete yet. God Knows when will they complete the stretch between Mukerba chowk to Delhi border.Yes its been 10 years since they started. They changed contractors and all that you know.

It is already 6 lanes from Delhi border to Sonepat since many years. I myself drove on it. Few years back my friend said it was 6 lanes till Panipat (though I don't trust him much).

[Euromast]

Some stretches are and some not. They have not done lane marking yet.

[Abhishek901]

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

[varunshiv]

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.

[Abhishek901]

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.

[varunshiv]

Originally Posted by Abhishek901

@ 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.

[Abhishek901]

Originally Posted by varunshiv

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.

I guess there is enough space at the start of the expressway so that the elevated road coming from DK can land on the surface before RTR interchange. That is essential also otherwise traffic going from DK to Vasant Kunj won't be able to turn left towards ORR. Also there is mismatch between number of lanes of this elevated road and RTR interchange. So, I don't think it will be merged with RTR interchange.

[varunshiv]

Yup!

[Abhishek901]

Times of India

[Indian Rockstars]

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..