Speed-up, that’s what government is contemplating, now. Get ready for a fast journey by road, hitherto not experienced.

The government is planning to set-up high-speed toll roads to lessen the time to connect to major cities in country. National Highway Authority of India will be in charge of this project that will be in addition to existing national highways.

The important connections between major cities that have been planned are the Mumbai to Vadodara, Delhi to Chandigarh, Delhi to Jaipur. One other route being considered is Chennai to Bengaluru. According to senior government sources, all the stretches might not get materialized though it has been decided that either Delhi to Jaipur or Delhi to Chandigarh and Mumbai to vadodara stretch will be the first to be taken up for construction.

The project, under the National Highway Development Program, will ensure that the cattle or the human movement doesn’t affect the vehicle speed and all the other facilities would be there as expected from national highways.

The study of feasibility of projects is expected to be over by next 9 months. It’s planned to award the tender by the end of 2007 and the expectation for completion of the project is kept to 4 years.

Although, if some relevant factors are kept in mind the claim on the part of Government may not sound as well planned as earlier. The fact that the acquisition of land is one primary factor that doesn’t show any indication to die down and the question of generating adequate traffic for the justification of additional cost are the two immensely important matters.

By tackling these problems the completion of project is unlikely to be completed within next 4-5 years. Though it doesn’t pay much to be an optimistic.

Via-indiatimes.com