Indian Expressways

Expressways are the highest class of roads in the Indian Road Network. As of 2006, the expressways of India make up more than 200 km (120 mi) of the Indian National Highway System. However, the National Highway System also consists of approximately 10,000 km (6,200 mi) of four-laned highways that do not feature full control of access. Currently, a massive project is underway to expand the highway network and the Government of India plans to add an additional 18,637 km (11,580 mi) of expressways to the network by the year 2022. These roads will be access-controlled roads and will feature between four to six lanes with 3,530 km (2,190 mi) km to come up in the next three years. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is already in the process of preparing a draft for creation of a National Expressways Authority of India (NEAI) on the lines of NHAI.

Expressways

Existing

Expressway Name Distance State

1 Mumbai Pune Expressway 93 km (58 mi) Maharashtra

2 Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway (National Expressway 1) 92.85 km (57.69 mi) Gujarat

3 Jaipur Kishangarh Expressway 90 km (56 mi) Rajastan

4 Allahabad Bypass Expressway 86 km (53 mi) Uttar Pradesh

5 Durgapur Expressway 65 km (40 mi) West Bengal

6 Chennai Bypass Expressway 32 km (20 mi) Tamil Nadu

7 Delhi Gurgaon Expressway 28 km (17 mi) Delhi/Haryana

8 Western Expressway 25.33 km (15.74 mi) Maharashtra

9 Sion Panvel Expressway 25 km (16 mi) Maharashtra

10 Noida Greater Noida Expressway 24.53 km (15.24 mi) Delhi/Uttar Pradesh

11 Delhi Noida Direct Flyway 23.55 km (14.63 mi) Delhi/Uttar Pradesh

12 Eastern Expressway 23.2 km (14.4 mi) Maharashtra

13 Hyderabad Elevated Expressways 11.6 km (7.2 mi) Andhra Pradesh

14 Hosur Road Elevated Expressway 9.985 km (6.204 mi) Karnataka

15 Kona Expressway 8 km (4.97 mi) West Bengal

Total length of Expressways 648.36 km (402.87 mi)

Western Expressway (Marathi: पश्चिम द्रुतगति महामार्ग)- is a north-south arterial road in Mumbai, India, stretching from the suburb of Bandra to Dahisar. The 25.33 km (15.74 mi)[7] highway begins near the Mahim Creek and extends to the Mira-Dahisar toll booth in the northern limit of the city. Beyond the city limits, it continues as the Mumbai-DelhiNational Highway 8. The road serves the city of Mumbai to its suburbs, including the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

Eastern Expressway (Marathi: पूर्व द्रुतगति महामार्ग ) (also known as Vasant Rao Naik Marg) is a 23.55 km (14.63 mi) city highway serving the city of Mumbai, India. It is one of the busiest and most important roads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Area and is a part of the National Highway 3. It is generally 6 lanes wide (3 lanes in each direction) with over a dozen flyovers/grade separators. It is a north-south artery of Mumbai connecting the city proper to the eastern suburbs and to the metropolitan area of Thane.

Sion Panvel Expressway is a 25 km (16 mi) city expressway serving the city of Mumbai, India currently under construction. It is one of the busiest and most important roads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Area and is a part of the National Highway 4. It is generally 12 lanes wide (6 lanes in each direction). The highway begins at BARC Junction Sion and streches up to Kalamboli Junction Panvel.

Mumbai Pune Expressway - The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is India's first 6-lane, concrete, high-speed, tolled, access-controlled, 93 km (58 mi) long expressway. It connects Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, to the neighboring educational and information technology-oriented city of Pune. With its smoothly paved concrete construction, this highway is unlike most other roads in India, where traffic is chaotic and aggressive driving is the norm. This high speed motorway largely follows established traffic patterns and offers a scenic drive between Mumbai and Pune, while cutting the travel time between these two commercially important Western Indian cities from 4 - 5 hours on the old NH4, to 2 - 3 hours. Mumbai Pune Expressway

Highway features

6-lane concrete highway with 7m-wide divider. An extra lane provided on each side as a hard shoulder.

Separate tunnels for traffic in each direction.

Complete fencing to avoid humans/animals crossing the expressway.

No two-wheelers, three-wheelers, or tractor vehicles allowed.

Provision of petrol pumps, motels, workshops, toilets, emergency phones, first aid, breakdown vans, etc.

Proposed planting of 80,000 trees along the Expressway.

Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway is also known as National Expressway 1 (India). It was originally planned during the 1970s, but was delayed for decades due to land-usage and political issues. These issues were resolved in the 1990s, and the expressway opened in 2004. The expressway cuts the journey between the two cities to less than 1 hour. This expressway was India's first 4-lane and dual carriageway expressway project, and includes minor bridges and canal crossings, interchanges at Nadiad and Anand, cross-drainage works, rest areas, and related structures, for a length of 92.85 km (57.69 mi).

Delhi Gurgaon Expressway - This expressway opened completely for the public on Jan 23, 2008, and is part of Golden Quadrilateral highway project. This expressway is 28 km (17 mi) long and expected to reduce travel time between Gurgaon and Delhi from upwards of 60 minutes to approximately 20 minutes. Some special features of this highway are SOS telephones every 1.5 km, CCTV surviliance, and a 32-lane toll plaza at the Delhi-Haryana border. The highway will be categorized into three parts: the VIP zone (up to the IGI Airport), the Urban section (up to Gurgaon), and Trucker's Paradise (after Gurgaon).

Noida Greater Noida Expressway, connects Noida, an industrial suburb of Delhi to Greater Noida a new suburb. The total length of this expressway is 24.53 km (15.24 mi). This expressway is under expansion to Taj Economic Zone, International Airport and Aviation Hub proposed to be constructed along the Taj Expressway. The objectives of the proposed expressway are as follows:

Highway features

To provide a fast moving corridor to minimize the travel time

To connect the main town ships / commercial centers on the Eastern site of river Yamuna

To ensure development of adjoining area

To relieve NH-2 which is already congested and runs through the heart of cities like Faridabad, Ballabhgarh and Palwal

Delhi Noida Direct Flyway is an eight-lane, 9.2 km (5.7 mi) km[13] access controlled tolled expressway which connects Delhi to Noida, an industrial sub-urb area. It was built and is maintained by the Noida Toll Bridge Company Limited (NTBCL). NTBCL was developed under a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model. The project included the construction of a flyover at Ashram Chowk. The other major part of the project was the construction of a 552.5 m (1,813 ft) bridge over the Yamuna river. This bridge, which was estimated to cost 408 crore (US$ 92.6 million).

Jaipur Kishangarh Expressway is 90 km (56 mi) long and part of national highway no 8 (NH8) which is 6 lane and constructed by GVK Industries Ltd.

Durgapur Expressway is 65 km (40 mi) long, linking Dankuni with Memari on Grand Trunk Road, now allows fast communication between Kolkata and Durgapur.

Belghoria Expressway through Nivedita Bridge is completed Dum Dum Airport will be 20-25 minutes from Dankuni.

Panipat Elevated Expressway six-lane 10 km (6.2 mi) expressway is expected to decongest the busy Delhi-Amritsar route. The Panipat Expressway is an uplift of National Highway 1.

Kona Expressway is 8 km (5.0 mi) long and serves as cut-offs and provides easier access to Kolkata from NH-2. 

Hyderabad Elevated Expressways - The 11.6 km (7.2 mi) long elevated expressway connects Mehdipatnam in the city to Aramgarh Junction on the National Highway-7 leading to the Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad

Hosur Road Elevated Expressway - is a 9.985 km (6.204 mi) kilometers (6 mi) long elevated, tolled, access controlled expressway in the city of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The project is a part of the BETL (Bangalore Elevated Tollways Ltd), project as part of the National Highways Development Project and the Elevated Highways Project. It was initiated in early 2006, and was inaugurated on 22nd January 2010.

Chennai Bypass Expresswayis a fully-access controlled expressway that interconnects four radial Indian National Highways around Chennai, India covering a distance of 32 km (20 mi). Constructed as part of the National Highway Development Project to decongest the city of transiting vehicles, the expressway interconnects NH45, NH4, NH205 and NH5. This expressway now forms a part of the circular transportation corridor.

Under construction

Expressway Name Distance State

1 Western Freeway Mumbai 25.33 km (15.74 mi) Maharashtra

2 Eastern Freeway Mumbai 22 km (14 mi) Maharashtra

3 Mumbai Nashik Expressway 150 km (93 mi) Maharashtra

4 Shimla Chandigarh Expressway 120 km (75 mi) Himachal Pradesh

5 Kundli ManesarPalwal Expressway(KMP) 135.6 km (84.3 mi) Haryana

6 National Expressway 2 (India) 105 km (65 mi) Uttar Pradesh/Haryana

7 Pathankot Ajmer Expressway 600 km (370 mi) Punjab/Rajasthan

8 Ganga Expressway 1,000 km (620 mi) Uttar Pradesh

9 Yamuna Expressway 165.53 km (102.86 mi) Delhi/Uttar Pradesh

10 Bamroli Althan Expressway 12 km (7.5 mi) Gujarat

11 Upper Ganga Canal Expressway 150 km (93 mi) Uttar Pradesh

12 Chennai Port Maduravoyal Expressway 19 km (12 mi) Tamil Nadu

13 Ambala Chandigarh Expressway 35 km (22 mi) Haryana

14 Hungund Hospet Expressway 99 km (62 mi) Karnataka

15 Hyderabad ORR 158 km (98 mi) Andhra Pradesh

Total length of Expressways 2,796.46 km (1,737.64 mi)

Western Freeway Mumbai is an ambitious project to connect the suburbs of Mumbai with downtown Mumbai. The project envisions the setting up of multiple flyovers over the Arabian Sea. The first phase of the project, known as the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, is complete, and links Bandra in the north with Worli to the south with a cable stayed bridge spanning the Mahim Bay. This development shall relieve the congestion on the Mahim Causeway, which up until now has been the only road connection between the suburbs and the main city of Mumbai on the western sea front.Toll will be Rs.50(one way),Rs.75(two way) for cars and Rs.100 for heavy vehicles.

Eastern Freeway Mumbai project (EFP) to provide a direct link to the Eastern Express Highway and south Mumbai. The Eastern Freeway will be a 22 km (14 mi) high-speed corridor from Prince of Wales Museum right up to Eastern Express Highway through the relatively less-congested roads of the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) area, expressway will drastically reduce travel time between Colaba in South Mumbai and the eastern suburbs like Ghatkopar and Mulund.The four-lanes EFP, which will start near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum, will go on to the Mumbai Port Trust road before joining the EEH via the Anik-Panjrapole link road, near Wadala, a distance of 12 km (7.5 mi). Of these, 9 km (5.6 mi) will be elevated.Work on this freeway already started on Jan 2008 and scheduled to complete in five year.

Mumbai Nashik Expressway will be 150 km (93 mi)long and one of the most important gateways - Mumbai to Northern, Central and Eastern part of India

Shimla Chandigarh Expressway The expansion to 4 lanes of Shimla-Chandigarh National Highway 22 (NH22) will eventually result in the formation of the 120 km (75 mi) Shimla-Chandigarh Expressway.

Kundli Manesar Palwal Expressway(KMP) - The construction work for 135.6 km (84.3 mi) long Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway also known as the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) expressway is going on at full swing.Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) expressway expected to become operational by June 2009, Delhi will be relieved of the congestion of heavy night traffic. It will act as a bypass for the night vehicles. The 135 km (84 mi) long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana, also known as the Western Peripheral Expressway, has been divided into three packages of 45 km (28 mi) each. Three major camps at Kundli, Manesar and Palwal have been established, supported by three ancillary camps at Jassoure Kheri, Badli and Taoru. Four flyovers have been proposed at places where the expressway will cross national highways i.e. NH-1, NH-10, NH-8 and NH-57

National Expressway 2 (India) or Eastern Peripheral Expressway . it will have two sections, 56 km (35 mi) long Faridabad-NOIDA-Ghaziabad expressway section and 49 km (30 mi) long Ghaziabad-Kundli expressway section.

Pathankot Ajmer Expressway - Expressway will begin from Pathankot in Punjab and pass through Haryana and end at the Holy city of Ajmer in Rajasthan. The total length of this expressway is 600 km (372.82 mi) 

Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor

Ganga Expressway - This project was announced in 2007 by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. At 1,000 km (620 mi), it will be India's longest expressway. It will link Noida, on Uttar Pradesh's western border with Delhi to Ballia, on Uttar Pradesh's eastern border with Bihar. The expressway will run along the left bank of the Ganga river, in contrast to the Grand Trunk Road which is on the right bank. The expected cost is 40,000 crore (US$ 9.08 billion). This expressway should reduce the travel time between Delhi and Varanasi to 8 hours. The project is expected to be completed in 2011. Private firms have shown their interest in the Ganga Expressway as twenty companies have placed their bids for this project. 

Yamuna Expressway(Taj Expressway) - Greater Noida-Agra - Extended connectivity with Delhi through Noida-Greater Noida Expressway (linked through interchange) and Delhi-Noida Direct. 

Upper Ganga Canal Expressway The eight-lane 150 km (93 mi) long Upper Ganga Canal expressway, popularly known as Hindon Expressway, will stretch from Noida to Hardwar through Muzaffarnagar and Roorkee.

Chennai Port - Maduravoyal Expressway The Chennai Port - Maduravoyal Expressway is a proposed 19 kilometers (12 mi) elevated expressway in the city of Chennai, India. The corridor begins at Chennai Port Gate no. 10 and travels along the bank of the Cooum River till it reaches Koyambedu and along the median of NH4 thereon till it reaches Maduravoyal.

Ambala Chandigarh Expressway The four-laning of the 35 km long, high-traffic density corridor of Ambala-Chandigarh section (km 5.735 to km 39.960 km on NH-22 and 0 km to 0.871 km on NH 21) on BOT basis, is expected to be completed in 30 months at a cost of 298 crore (US$ 67.65 million)

Hungund Hospet Expressway is a 99 km (62 mi) long access-controlled toll expressway connecting Hungund and Hospet, Karnataka.  It will be built on existing NH 13, with cost of 1,700 crore (US$ 385.9 million). 

Planned

Mumbai Vadodara Expressway is an expressway scheduled to be constructed between the cities of Vadodara (Gujarat) and Mumbai (Maharashtra). Its cost of the project is expected to be 6,672 crore (US$ 1.51 billion).

NHAI has proposed the following two Expressways in the NHDP VI.

Bangalore Chennai Expressway

Kolkata-Dhanbad expressway

The Uttar Pradesh government is planning five more expressways in the state. The five proposed expressways will have a combined length of around 750 km (470 mi).

The Five Expressways would be

Greater Noida-Saharanpur-Dehradun expressway (in partnership with the Uttarakhand state government)

Farrukhabad-Kotdwar expressway.

Delhi-Meerut expressway.

Chennai HSCTC

Chennai Elevated Expressways

(source:wikipedia)