NEW DELHI: It\u2019s not just commuters who find it difficult to drive at 50 kmph speed on the completed portion of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, which is designed for speeds of up to 120 kmph. Even NHAI says the purpose of such a \u201cbarricaded\u201d highway will fail, if the speed is kept so low.
\n\u201cWe are writing to Delhi Traffic Police seeking giving a detailed features of this road, which segregates the straight-going traffic and local commuters. Since they have the authority to notify the speed limit in areas under their jurisdiction, we will request them to adequately revise the maximum speed,\u201d said an NHAI official. He added that the completed portion is the first such stretch in an urban area.
\nOnce completed, no two-three wheeler or any slow moving traffic will be allowed in this barricaded portion. \u201cYou can\u2019t compare this stretch even with Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, which has several entry and exit points, and there is mixed traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: It\u2019s not just commuters who find it difficult to drive at 50 kmph speed on the completed portion of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, which is designed for speeds of up to 120 kmph. Even NHAI says the purpose of such a \u201cbarricaded\u201d highway will fail, if the speed is kept so low. \u201cWe are writing to Delhi Traffic Police seeking giving a detailed features of this road, which segregates the straight-going traffic and local commuters. Since they have the authority to notify the speed limit in areas under their jurisdiction, we will request them to adequately revise the maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}