Delhi-Agra Stretch Of NH-2 To Be Widened From 4 To 6 Lanes

[Harpreet]

Faridabad to get 7 flyovers

Delhi-Agra Stretch Of NH-2 To Be Widened From 4 To 6 Lanes

Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN

New Delhi: After Gurgaon,its now the turn of Faridabad to get a series
of flyovers on the National Highway which runs along the city.Flyovers
will be built across all the major seven crossings between Delhi
border and Ballabhgarh.
The project is part of the widening of Delhi-Agra stretch of
NH-2,which will be expanded from the present four to six lanes.This
will be the next round of massive road development work in Faridabad
undertaken by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).The
agency is presently constructing an elevated corridor to make the
Delhi-Badarpur junction signal-free.Its likely to be completed before
the Commonwealth Games.
As per the widening plan,six-lane flyovers would be constructed at
NHPC Chowk,Badkhal Lake,Old Faridabad Chowk,Ajronda Chowk,HUDA
Residency,HSIIDC Chowk and Bata Chowk in Faridabad.At present,these
intersections witness major snarls during peak hours and during night
due to heavy movement of trucks on the highway.While the construction
of flyovers would ensure non-stop movement for traffic heading towards
Agra,it will also reduce the waiting time for vehicles heading towards
different sectors of Faridabad.
The NHAI is going to award the widening of the 180km stretch between
Delhi and Agra soon.Reliance Infrastructure has emerged as the
preferred bidder for this project. The next round of NHAI board
meeting is likely to clear the awarding of the project and then the
process will start, a senior official said.
The urbanized stretch will also get both subways and foot overbridges
(FOB) for safe passage of pedestrians. Enough provision for safe
passage of pedestrians has been included as a part of the project to
ensure that here we dont face a Gurgaon-like situation many
pedestrians have been killed while trying to cross the expressway,
said a senior NHAI official.
Once completed,the total travel time on this stretch will reduce
drastically,though commuters will have to pay toll for each km they
travel on this corridor.NHAI officials claim that after the completion
of the project,it would take not more than two hours to cover the
distance between Delhi and Agra as the maximum design speed on this
stretch would be 100 kmph.
The BOT project takes off from Delhi-Faridabad border,and goes through
Agra and Mathura districts in UP and Faridabad in Haryana.

[kaka]

This is a very very good news for FARIDABAD. If once this project
completed then FARIDABAD is going to be the best metro city in NCR