Ashish Ranjan
On February 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open a portion of the long-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The 1,386-kilometer motorway between Delhi and Mumbai will reduce travel time by approximately 12 hours. Cities along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway route would also become closer. Sunday’s inauguration by PM Modi of the Sohna-Dausa portion of the motorway will reduce travel time between Delhi and Jaipur to two hours.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: 10 Points To Know
1. The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will initially be a greenfield motorway with eight lanes and restricted access, with the potential for future expansion to twelve lanes.
2. A property tract measuring 15,000 hectares has been purchased along the borders of five Indian states: Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
3. The experience of commuters travelling on the highway will be improved by the addition of 94 wayside amenities.
4. The highway would have over 40 important interchanges, which will ensure connectivity to Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, and Vadodara, among other cities.
5. It is anticipated that the portion of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project extending from Sohna to Dausa will be opened to traffic beginning on Tuesday.
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6. The preliminary estimate for the cost of the project in 2018 was 98,000 crore. The building of the Delhi-Mumbai motorway will require 12 lakh tonnes of steel, which is the same amount of steel as would be needed to build 50 Howrah Bridges. The initiative is expected to create 10 billion man-days worth of work opportunities.
7. The construction of the Delhi-Mumbai highway will shorten the distance between the two cities by approximately 180 kilometres (from 1,424 km to 1,242 km)
8. According to Nitin Gadkari, the minister of transport, this motorway is the first of its kind to be constructed with a 21-meter median based on the principles of forgiving roadways that allow inward expansion.
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9. The automated traffic management system that will be used on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be at the cutting edge of technology.
10. This motorway is the first of its kind in India and also in Asia to provide overpasses and underpasses specifically for animals. It has been reorganised to have as little of an effect as possible on the Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary.
