"Dream, Dream, Dream! Conduct these dreams into thoughts, and then transform them into action."
- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In next four to five years, about 20,000 kilometre stretch of major national highways will have very few entry and exit points to facilitate high speed transport
These major national highways will be free of any median, U-turns and side entries to allow uninterrupted high speed travelling for fast moving and heavy vehicles. The roads will also be protected from proper barricades to prevent the stray animals on coming on the highways.
Along with the above said changes, the government under the Phase I of the Bharatmala scheme will expand certain stretches to four lanes which would cost around Rs 3.85 lakh crore. The slow moving vehicles like rickshaws, motor-bikes lead to many traffic crashes due to the speed. Also, where a four-lane road in Japan can carry about 40,000 vehicles, similar road in India cannot carry more than 20,000 vehicles which further breaches the traffic. To solve this issue the roads have to be converted to six lanes which would incur lots of land acquisitions and huge capital investment.
Road transport and highways ministry under Nitin Gadkari proposed the concept of access controlled roads which are common abroad. These roads will have limited entry and exit points with separated service roads used to arrive onto the highways. The highways as of now for the implementation are the Mumbai-Kolkata and Mangalore-Bangalore, Ludhiana to Kandla and Porbandar to Silchar which carry most of the road transport goods and connect important financial hubs.
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