Delhi To Chandigarh Road Trip In Just Two Hours Will Be A Reality In 2023

Don't like road trips? You might just after you read this.

The distance between Delhi airport to Chandigarh could soon be covered in just two hours, reported Times of India. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is promising that this idea will become a reality by June 2023 when the Dwarka Expressway and Urban Extension Road in Delhi, Trans-Haryana and the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressways would be completed.

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The new expressways will reduce the distance between the two points by 20 km and bring down the total distance to 240 km from 260 km on the Delhi-Chandigarh link. The travel time will be reduced by half as commuters will travel through five expressways. An NHAI official said, ¡°At permitted speed of 120 kmph on expressways, a car can cover this 240 km in just two hours."

Highways minister, Nitin Gadkari has said the web of expressways in this part of the country including the Delhi-Mumbai one will transform the way people travel on roads. NHAI chairman K K Sandhu said the completion of the projects will result in seamless connectivity across the region.

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The report further added that adequate information through signage will be placed right from Dwarka Expressway which is the take-off point from the airport to guide the commuters till their destination.

He added the commuters will need to travel on Dwarka Expressway and a spur from Urban Extension Road to reach the already completed KMP expressway at Bahadurgarh. This will be a 40-km drive. Then after covering about 10 km of KMP expressway they will take the Delhi-Katra expressway for approximately 80 km. ¡°Finally they will take the Trans-Haryana Expressway to reach Ambala to head towards Chandigarh. All interchanges have been designed to make the travel smooth,¡± another NHAI official told ToI.

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What's worth mentioning here is that the NHAI will award the 60 km signal free link between DND flyway in Delhi and Mumbai Expressway at Sohna next month. ¡°We have received bids and the process of evaluation has started. The target is to complete all these projects by middle of 2023,¡± an NHAI official said.