Delhi to Patna by road in 11 hours flat.
The distance of 1,100 kilometers by road between Delhi to Patna in 11 hours flat is the target being set by the governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which are getting together to help slash travel time by at least a third between the three major political centres of Delhi, Lucknow and Patna by 2019.
The plan envisages a network of ring roads and expressways and creating a new economic corridor on the lines of the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. The road journey between Delhi and Patna takes an arduous 18 hours at present, and it was even longer before the Agra-Lucknow expressway built by the Uttar Pradesh government became operational earlier this year.
The governments at the Centre and in UP and Bihar, are keen to address the issue of poor road connectivity.
Four new projects will be executed to implement this vision. The road transport and highways ministry have offered to build and fund an expressway connecting Patna with the second project, a 350-km long Purvanchal Expressway that will connect Lucknow to Ghazipur. At present, the road journey via a national highway from Lucknow to Patna itself takes about 11 hours.
The Purvanchal Expressway, which will be the longest in the country, along with the Patna Expressway to be built by the NHAI is expected to reduce the journey from Lucknow to Patna to about half.
The third project will be an outer ring road in Lucknow, to be built by the NHAI, which will connect the 302-km Agra-Lucknow Expressway with the proposed Purvanchal Expressway without the commuters needing to enter the traffic congestion of Lucknow.
The Eastern Peripheral Expressway will act as the eastern outer ring road for Delhi, reducing congestion in the capital. To connect both the expressways, the UP government has already allotted us 65 acre land in Greater Noida. and now the loop to connect both will be constructed.
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