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Service Roads Getting Choked, Build Colony Roads Soon: NHAI to State

  • The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) wants the Haryana government to expedite work on building colony roads as the service roads of the Gurgaon expressway are poised to be completely choked in the next few years.A consultant appointed by the NHAI has projected that traffic on the expressway is likely to increase by 9% annually and only at the 32-lane toll plaza it will touch 5.5 lakh passenger car units (PCUs) by 2028 - about two and a half times more than what the plaza processes now.
  • A presentation, which was made by the consultant at a high-level meeting on the expressway on Monday, has projected that cars would remain the major component of traffic passing through the 32-lane toll plaza for the next 16 years.The study of the traffic pattern and scenarios at the 32-lane toll plaza mentions that about 67% of the traffic passing through the plaza end up in Gurgaon while the remaining 33% passes through the Kherki Dhaula toll plaza.Data available with the TOI also shows that over 60% of the cars passing through the toll plaza don't go beyond Hero Honda crossing. Out of the daily 1.2 lakh cars using the 32-lane toll plaza, only 55,000 pass through the Kherki Dhaula toll plaza every day. So, the highways ministry has proposed to the Haryana government to build colony roads so that local traffic does not come on to the main expressway or the service roads.
  • "Elevated loops should be built by the state to ensure smoother traffic flow from one sector road on one side of the expressway to the other side without hindering the expressway traffic. Non-existence of such a facility between the Udyog Vihar flyover and the 32-lane toll plaza is the main reason behind long congestion from Gurgaon side during evening peak hours," said an NHAI official. He added that the state has agreed to implement the proposals of integrating these roads and there would be a series of meetings to ensure that the plan takes off."All accesses to residential and commercial properties should be from these sectoral roads. This will ensure lesser congestion on the service roads. We want the two- and three-wheelers, which are exempted from tolling, to avail themselves of this facility rather than the local traffic," said a highways ministry official.

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