Though the Delhi-Mumbai expressway promises to cut down travel time from over 24 hours to just around 12 hours between the two cities for private vehicles, it will still be around 20-22 hours for taxis and tourist buses with pre-installed speed governors, Delhi Taxi and Tourist Transporters Association has complained.
Sanjay Samrat, the president of the umbrella body of tourist-ferrying taxis and buses with all-India permits operating from the national capital, said limiting their vehicles’ speed to 80 kmph while allowing private vehicles to go at speeds around 120 kmph is discriminatory.
“We have been flagging the issue of speed governors that limit our speeds to 80 kmph with everyone from the Delhi government to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for the last five years, but all we have got are assurances,” Samrat said.
