Don’t allow vehicles to take a U-turn to enter Ambience Mall during peak hours: High Court to DGSCL

In what spells trouble for the infrastructure sector, around Rs 25,000-crore highways projects are awaiting funding and seeking extension of financial closure deadline. These projects constitute 23 packages and comprise 2,500 km of construction.

The project award pace of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has also slowed down with just over 600 km of highway projects awarded in the first half of the financial year against the ambitious target of 9,500 km set by the prime minister, said Minister for Roads and Highways C P Joshi.

KOLKATA, 2 OCT: The much-touted West Bengal Highway Development Corporation (WBHDCL) may end up as a non-starter due to the land-acquisition policy of the state government which has made the expans

Will cut travel time to three hours from the present seven

The Samajwadi Party government’s first major road project — the 270-kilometre Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway — will be built through the PPP (public-private participation) mode. The green signal for the ambitious project was given at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Should the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway be bought back by the government and nationalized?

Cars use more space, crowd the road and move far fewer people. Our educated road planners must count people, not vehicles

I write this stuck in traffic. Nothing unusual. But my location makes me realise, once again, how our highway route to progress is going nowhere. The road I am using is newly commissioned and expensive. It is the 28-km Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, which was built just a few years ago to take care of the explosion of traffic between the two cities. It is access-controlled, with a 32-lane toll plaza, and was to provide easy access and a fun ride. The concessionaire – built as it is under the famous public-private partnership model – took all steps to keep it prized for cars. “Slow-moving” traffic like motorcycles, bicycles and even three-wheelers were banned on it.

Private commuters driving on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway will enjoy a toll-free ride at least till Tuesday.

New Delhi The government on Thursday approved nine road projects of 1,226 km and worth R11,597 crore from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, as part of its effort to give an impetus to investments and accelerate economic growth.

A finance ministry statement said on Thursday that the relevant Empowered Committee cleared these road projects. The Viability Gap Funding (VGF) involved is R2,295 crore, it said. These projects are at an advanced stage of bidding/construction and are expected to result in disbursal of R500.00 crore from the Centre during 2012-13, it added.

Ranchi, Sept.

New Delhi: This time around, there will be no escape for the Gurgaon expressway contractor if it fails to fulfill conditions laid down in the MoU, which was signed with NHAI and lenders on Tuesday.