With the construction of a new link from Bandikui on the Delhi-Mumbai motorway to Jaipur Ring Road, travel to Jaipur from Delhi is expected to be easier and quicker starting in June. This will make the two-and-a-half-hour nonstop journey from Delhi to Jaipur a reality. With the new connection, Delhi and Jaipur will be 20 km closer.
By December, when the first nine kilometres of the DND Flyway-KMP junction on the Delhi-Mumbai motorway opens, commuters would experience greater respite, according to NHAI officials. It will be easy for those travelling from Ghaziabad, Noida, and east Delhi to go to Jaipur. It takes two and a half hours to travel the full 260 kilometres over the Bandikui connection between DND Flyway and Jaipur.
At the moment, travellers from Delhi, Gurgaon, and Faridabad who want to get to Jaipur must off the Delhi-Mumbai motorway at Dausa and travel the four-lane NH-21 route. The allowed speed for automobiles is 100 kmph because this is an existing motorway that passes through cities and villages.
Commuters would be allowed to travel continuously once the 67-kilometre access-controlled roadway between Bandikui and Jaipur is open. Taking into account the increase in traffic heading to Jaipur, this connection was eventually included to the Delhi-Mumbai motorway project.
“With the exception of one lane of the rail over bridge (ROB) on the Delhi-Ahmedabad railway line, which should be finished by the end of May, the access-controlled roadway is finished. A senior NHAI official stated, “Efforts are underway to see if traffic can be permitted by the last week of next month by creating a small diversion for this one-kilometre stretch.”
Santosh Yadav, the head of the NHAI, has requested that staff refrain from issuing temporary permits to let traffic on “haste” sections. “High-speed routes that we are constructing have been inaugurated. Therefore, before granting the certificate to permit traffic, field officers and authority engineers must drive on these sections several times.
You have to check to determine whether it is truly operationally ready. We cannot afford for there to be potholes and subsequent complaints following the inauguration. He informed highway engineers and experts last week that “we would prefer a little delay to address all deficiencies before opening.”
