New Delhi: Owing to the ongoing tug-of war within the department, the widening of National Highway-24 from Uttar Pradesh border to Dasna has stuck in the red tape. Although the contract for the widening process had been awarded, it is now going to be scrapped due to intra departmental conflicts.
While the project has been shunned, a new proposal for Delhi-Meerut Expressway has come up which is expected to bring relief from traffic congestion in this block.
The NH-24 starts from Nizamuddin from Delhi and ends up at Lucknow via Hapur, Moradabad, Bareli and Sitapur.
Although, the eight-lane road from Nizamuddin to UP border ensures a smooth ride for commuters, the journey transforms into a nightmare after entering UP. The highway route is reduced to four lane and two lane roads. Even though projects have been initiated to convert such roads into a four lane road, the heavy traffic congestion indicates the requirement for either a six or eight lane road.
Due to traffic congestion on UP border-Dasna, the exercise to develop it as a six lane route was started three years back.
The construction contract for Dasna-Lucknow (NH 24) route was issued in March this year but the Union Ministry for Road Transportation and National Highways changed the scheme due to which the project could not see the light of the day.
Now it has been is decided to cancel the aforesaid scheme and a new proposal for construction of Delhi-Meerut expressway has come up which will ease the traffic congestion.
According to Director General for Road Development RP Indoria the scheme for widening of UP border-Dasna was myopic and it only focused on widening of national highways, whereas the construction of service lane on both the sides was ignored.
He said, “The Delhi-Meerut Expressway will have eight lanes and three lane service roads will be built on both the sides,” and added “It will be built in such a manner that various crossings will be eliminated and the expressway will be elevated at such points.”
After deciding the alignment of the expressway, study on its feasibility is being done. It will be tabled before Public - Private Partnership Approval Committee for approval.
New Delhi: Owing to the ongoing tug-of war within the department, the widening of National Highway-24 from Uttar Pradesh border to Dasna has stuck in the red tape. Although the contract for the widening process had been awarded, it is now going to be scrapped due to intra departmental conflicts.
While the project has been shunned, a new proposal for Delhi-Meerut Expressway has come up which is expected to bring relief from traffic congestion in this block.
The NH-24 starts from Nizamuddin from Delhi and ends up at Lucknow via Hapur, Moradabad, Bareli and Sitapur.
Although, the eight-lane road from Nizamuddin to UP border ensures a smooth ride for commuters, the journey transforms into a nightmare after entering UP. The highway route is reduced to four lane and two lane roads. Even though projects have been initiated to convert such roads into a four lane road, the heavy traffic congestion indicates the requirement for either a six or eight lane road.
Due to traffic congestion on UP border-Dasna, the exercise to develop it as a six lane route was started three years back.
The construction contract for Dasna-Lucknow (NH 24) route was issued in March this year but the Union Ministry for Road Transportation and National Highways changed the scheme due to which the project could not see the light of the day.
Now it has been is decided to cancel the aforesaid scheme and a new proposal for construction of Delhi-Meerut expressway has come up which will ease the traffic congestion.
According to Director General for Road Development RP Indoria the scheme for widening of UP border-Dasna was myopic and it only focused on widening of national highways, whereas the construction of service lane on both the sides was ignored.
He said, “The Delhi-Meerut Expressway will have eight lanes and three lane service roads will be built on both the sides,” and added “It will be built in such a manner that various crossings will be eliminated and the expressway will be elevated at such points.”
After deciding the alignment of the expressway, study on its feasibility is being done. It will be tabled before Public - Private Partnership Approval Committee for approval.
Source:
http://post.jagran.com/project-for-widening-of-nh24-shunned-delhimeerut-expressway-in-offing-1308222214-1
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NEW DELHI: After a year-long delay, the Delhi-Meerut expressway project will kick off by this month-end.
The drive from
Delhi to Meerut will take just 45 minutes once the Delhi-Meerut Expressway is ready. The tender for the project will be up for bidding in next few weeks and the 64-km long expressway is likely to be completed by 2015.
In what will be a major relief to 1.31 lakh passenger cars plying between Delhi and Ghaziabad border, the first 8km of the expressway from Nizamuddin Bridge to Ghaziabad border will have 16 lanes.
As per the final plan, the expressway will cover 28km of NH-24 between Ghaziabad border and Dasna and this stretch will be widened to 14 lanes from present six lanes. After this, a 36-km stretch between Dasna and Meerut will be constructed as a four-lane highway. At present, it takes over two-and-a-half hours to commute between Delhi and Meerut due to the congestion on NH-58 which passes through Ghaziabad, Muradnagar and Modi Nagar.
The project was scheduled to be awarded in the last financial year. The central government had conceptualized the corridor five years ago to provide nonstop connectivity between the two cities 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
National Highways Authority of India replaced it with the plan to construct the expressway, partially on a new alignment.
The
NHAI has already finalized the alignment. Sources said the land acquisition process for this project is under way. Highways ministry officials said the tender would be floated soon and the project would be awarded by November this year.
"This project will transform the way lakhs of people commute between Delhi and Meerut. We are awarding the expressway as a part of a package that includes construction of a six-lane road between Delhi border and Meerut bypass, besides a connecting road and a children's park. The composite project will improve the connectivity to the expressway," said minister of state for road transport and highways, Jitin Prasad.
All four packages of the project would cost close to Rs 4,500 crore. The expressway would be an access controlled highway and all traffic signals and crossings would be done away with. Besides this, all slow-moving traffic including two-wheelers and three-wheelers would not be allowed to ply on the expressway. The speed limit on the expressway will be 90kmph.
