Road to nowhere: the longest expressway India never had

[Sashan]

no helmets?

It depends from state to state.

 

[Icewolf]

Indians... I wasn't saying India was building coastal highway. I said Pakistan has built 1000 km highway, why hadn't India finished theirs?

 

[Skyline]

It depends from state to state.

what's the min & max speed limits on expressway?

 

[Sashan]

Indians... I wasn't saying India was building coastal highway. I said Pakistan has built 1000 km highway, why hadn't India finished theirs?

Golden Quadrilateral and current status - total kms - 5800 kms - three legs out of 4 legs completed. 1 leg at 99% complete status.

Golden Quadrilateral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


And it is under-budget.

 

[kingkobra]

Indians... I wasn't saying India was building coastal highway. I said Pakistan has built 1000 km highway, why hadn't India finished theirs?

So you are comparing your one highway with our one highway??
do you know length of longest highway in india? search for NH7..

 

[Sashan]

what's the min & max speed limits on expressway?

I am not sure about the legal limits.

I have travelled Mumbai - Pune and Chennai-Bangalore as well as the Delhi-Jaipur highway and have travelled upto 130 km per hour.

 

[harpoon]

Indians... I wasn't saying India was building coastal highway. I said Pakistan has built 1000 km highway, why hadn't India finished theirs?

Your coastal highway goes through barren lands and mountains (as seen in the pics), not fertile, heavily populated area.

It depends from state to state.

In Kerala its needed, but after dark police usually doesn't care.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Indians... I wasn't saying India was building coastal highway. I said Pakistan has built 1000 km highway, why hadn't India finished theirs?

The coastal highway 600-700 km which you seem to proud off, is a simple two lane highway, such two highways in India are upto 20000-30000 kms.
While four lane highway in India are upto 10000 km. while several expressways are already constructed or are being under construction.

The above said ganga expressway is a eight lane highway unfortunately stuck in political dispute, so will take its own time or probably even get cancelled since SP government is in power in UP.

 

[OrionHunter]

no helmets?

Damn! Idiots! The police are as usual poodle faking! Jeeez!

 

[Anees]

Jun 26, 2012

The failure of the Ganga Expressway offers a snapshot of India's chronic infrastructure woes and a reality check on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent promise to speed up more than 200 key projects.

Unveiled more than four years ago, it's all that remains of an ambition to build India's longest expressway, an eight-lane, 1,050-km (650-mile) road that would have run through Uttar Pradesh and connected one of the country's most backward regions to the doorstep of the nation's capital.

But having been in and out of the headlines for years, the project has all but crumbled under the weight of political wrangling, opposition from farmers whose fields would have suffered, and a court order in 2009 stalling construction on environmental grounds.

Officially, the Ganga Expressway still exists on paper, but with SP in power in Uttar Pradesh, it is unlikely to be built, at least for years.

Road to nowhere: the longest expressway India never had | Reuters

With one photo dont judge , 98% Works are complete

Yes we agree that some place were due to over population and farm land there is diffculty ... But we are trying to solve it ....

 

[Sashan]

In Kerala its needed, but after dark police usually doesn't care.

In Chennai, it has become an issue - Two days back a state minister's son passed away due to not wearing helmet.


Death of minister’s son shows poor implementation of helmet rule in Chennai

The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : Death of minister

 

[Yeti]

I was reading this the other day it would have been good but alas....

 

[Sashan]

I was reading this the other day it would have been good but alas....

Mate - I did not get you.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Of course the lamentable layman12345 ,or whatever, chooses to focus on the negatives rather than the positives. India has firm plans to spend $1.2 TRILLION USD in the next 5-8 years on infrastructure so the situation is complety influx.

 

[Don777]

Oh my god, what a high standard of world affairs thread. I am quite sure i will become famous in some days, some chini poster will post a thread about the unfinished road near our locality or the news about the jammed mainhole and sewar. Please inform me while posting these things, i will provide some pictures, which will add to pdf high standards. Even please post a thread about my niehbour who farts too much, he should also become famous.