Delhi's Urban Extension RoadII To Open In 24 Months, Cut Airport Travel Time To 20 Minutes: Nitin Gadkari

Delhi's long-awaited Urban Extension Road-II (UER II), which connects North Delhi to the Delhi-Jaipur highway, will become operational within 2-4 months, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday (October 1). He said the project will reduce travel time to the Indira Gandhi International Airport from two hours to 20 minutes.

Addressing the Indian diaspora in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday (October 1) Gadkari said, "We have constructed the UER-II ring road in Delhi. It will open in 2-3 months. Normally, if you didn't use this road it would take you two hours to get to the airport. But after the UER-II's construction, which will start in 3-4 months, you will reach the T3 airport in 20 minutes instead of two hours."

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had earlier confirmed to CNBC-TV18 that the road would open before the year's end. He had then described Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) as the "lifeline of Delhi". The road transport and highways minister lauded this project as a "game-changer" for Delhi.

“A majority of the traffic jams and pollution in Delhi is because of the traffic going from North India to South India via Delhi. UER-II will reduce the traffic jam, time as well as pollution,” Gadkari said earlier.

According to a Times of India report, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2021 directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to complete the second phase of UER-II, an access-controlled highway, by August 2023.

The cost of the project is estimated to be around a total of Rs 7,716 crore, split across five packages of varying distances.

The Urban Extension Road-II has a length of 75 km and spans across six main expressway lanes and four service road lanes. It starts from NH44 at Alipur and ends at the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway on NH48 near Mahipalpur.

(Edited by : Akriti Anand)

First Published: Oct 2, 2023 9:32 AM IST

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