Delhi-Meerut in 45 mins on expressway

With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) set to finalize the alignment of a 61-km expressway next month, the travel time between Delhi and Meerut may be reduced to approximately 45 minutes from the usual two hours once the project is completed. There is also some good news for daily commuters on the Delhi-Ghaziabad stretch of NH-24. According to the proposal, the existing stretch in Delhi, which is being widened to eight lanes, would subsequently be converted to 16 lanes, letting commuters zip through this congested corridor even during peak hours. The Central government had conceptualised the corridor three years ago to provide nonstop connectivity between the two cities in the NCR as a part of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) VI. Though earlier there was a proposal to widen the existing NH-58 to eight lanes, later the NHAI replaced it with constructing the expressway.