Mumbai And Kolkata To Get Seamless Access-controlled Expressway Connectivity By 2028

In the last few years, India’s road network has seen a major development, now presently standing as the second largest road network in the world.

As India’s infrastructure continues to push with future road connectivity, a number of road projects are also lined up with plans to construct and expand kilometres of national highways and high-speed corridors.

Amid the ongoing development, in what can be said as a major development, the cities of Mumbai and Kolkata might soon get seamless access-controlled expressway connectivity.

According to the latest report by Infra News India, it has been revealed that Mumbai and Kolkata will have nearly seamless access-controlled expressway connectivity by 2028. The connectivity is expected to be done through a couple of upcoming expressways that help to connect different cities falling between the two metropolitans.

The four major expressways are the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway, the Nagpur-Bhandara-Gondia Expressway, the Raipur-Dhanbad Economic Corridor, and the Varanasi-Kolkata Expressway.

Despite these major expressways, the connectivity will still remain incomplete from Bhandara to Raipur. As a result of this, the rest of the route will basically consist of a seamless access control expressway.

While the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is yet to confirm the proposal, the speculation comes right after the Nagpur-Bhandara-Gondia Expressway, the Eastern Maharashtra Expressway, was proposed, as reported by Curly Tales.

A 127-km highway in Eastern Maharashtra, it will be an extension of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway which will help to connect the districts of Nagpur, Bhadra, and Gondia and will reduce travel time between Nagpur and Gondia to about two hours.

Presently, it takes 4 to 5 hours to travel between the two destinations. In the meantime, if there’s a formal announcement and the expressway gets the green light, travelling between Mumbai and Kolkata will become much easier and require less time than now.

Upcoming Expressways in India

2024 will see a number of expressways coming up across the country. The first one is the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (Phase 4) which will traverse through the western states connecting Delhi and Mumbai.

Next is the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway which covers a distance of 687 kilometers connecting Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Ganga Expressway will stretch across 594 kilometers from Meerut to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, connecting key cities along its route. Among other major expressways include the Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, the Delhi-Saharanpur-Dehradun Expressway, the Delhi-Jaipur Super Expressway, the Khamman-Devarapalli Expressway, Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway (Phase III), the Ambala-Shamli Expressway, and the Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway, as stated by a Business Insider report.