Articles tagged under: highways

Traffic diversion on Ahmedabad-Modasa Highway for bridge widening work

June 16, 2024
Traffic diversion on Ahmedabad-Modasa Highway for bridge widening work

Talod: Traffic diversion has been given on the Ahmedabad-Modasa highway due to ongoing lane construction work. The District Roads and Buildings Department has redirected traffic from Harsol towards T.R. Chowk to Ujediya instead of passing through Modasa, effective from June 14 to June 30, 2024. The construction involves widening the existing bridge over the Sujalam Sufalam Canal near Harsol, Talod, as part of the four-lane expansion of the Ahmedabad-Modasa state highway. As the monsoon sea...Read More

Gotri – Sevasi – Sindhrot road in Vadodara shut for over 3 months

June 11, 2024
Gotri – Sevasi – Sindhrot road in Vadodara shut for over 3 months

Vadodara: Gotri - Sevasi - Sindhro road in the city will be completely closed for traffic for over three months period upto September 29 due to renovation works. Renovation work has already begun which includes the thin white topping. The stretch from Bhimpura Crossroads to Sindhrot Crossroads will be completely closed to traffic until September 29th, according to the Vadodara District Collector’s notification. This closure affects the route from Vadodara to Anand and Kheda, which sees appr...Read More

NHAI moves a step ahead to roll out GNSS-Based Electronic Toll Collection

June 07, 2024
NHAI moves a step ahead to roll out GNSS-Based Electronic Toll Collection

New Delhi; National Highway Authority has moved ahead with its plans to implement the GNSS-based Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system within the existing FASTag ecosystem, initially using a hybrid model where both RFID-based ETC and GNSS-based ETC will operate simultaneously. The aim is to provide seamless and barrier-free tolling experience to National Highway users and enhance efficiency & transparency of toll operations. Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL), a company pr...Read More

Revised toll rate effective at Ahmedabad – Vadodara Expressway from today

June 03, 2024

Vadodara: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has announced revised toll rates for around 1100  toll plazas across the country effective from today. The increase across the country at toll plazas is 3% to 5%. Ahmedabad - Vadodara Expressway is one of the highway stretches for which toll has been hiked. According to NHAI officials, this adjustment in toll rates is part of an annual process, with changes based on fluctuations in wholesale price index-based inflation. NHAI generally...Read More

5 km long traffic jam as villagers on rampage block Himmatnagar – Shamlaji national highway

May 24, 2024

Himmatnagar: Ahmedabad - Udaipur national highway - 48 was blocked by local villagers of Gamdi village after the death of a villager in a road accident today morning. The traffic jam was as long as 5 kms. Thousands of passengers were stuck in this traffic on Shamlaji - Himmatnagar highway in the morning, reportedly after 8 am. The villagers burned tyres after a villager's death. Police reached the spot to convince the villagers to let the traffic move. However the mob of villagers was adamant...Read More

Farmers stage protest at Gujarat BJP HQ against land aquisition for Tharad expressway

April 02, 2024
Farmers stage protest at Gujarat BJP HQ against land aquisition for Tharad expressway

Gandhinagar: Over 100 persons arrived at the headquarters of Bharatiya Janata Party in Gandhinagar with placards and banners and staged a protest against Tharad - Ahmedabad highway project. They demanded cancellation of 'kachi nondh' in their 7/12 utaaraa documents in connection with the Bharat Mala project's Tharad - Ahmedabad expressway stretch. The protest programme was held under the banenr of 'Asargrast Khedut Samanvay Samiti'. With the sudden arrival of over 100 protesters, the gates of th...Read More

Toll fee hike on Halol – Shamlaji highway from 1st April 2024

March 14, 2024
Toll fee hike on Halol – Shamlaji highway from 1st April 2024

Gandhinagar: Halol-Shamlaji highway will see an increase in toll fees in the range of Rs. 5 to Rs. 45 from 1st April 2024. A 166-km long highway was earlier managed by L&T while since 2022 it is managed by Kalyan Halol - Shamlaji Toll Way Ltd. Toll fees now and from 1st April 2024 Mini Bus: Halol - Godhra toll from Rs. 105 - Rs. 110 Godhra Lunawada toll from Rs. 100 to Rs. 105 Lunawada - Modasa toll from Rs. 135 to Rs. 140 Halol - Shamlaji toll from Rs. 410 to Rs. 425 Bus: ...Read More

6-lane Narol – Vishala – Sarkhej elevated corridor, 8-lane Shastri bridge; PM performs virtual Bhumi pujan

March 11, 2024
6-lane Narol – Vishala – Sarkhej elevated corridor, 8-lane Shastri bridge; PM performs virtual Bhumi pujan

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi performed a virtual Bhoomi poojan of the proposed 10.170 km elevated corridor and bridge projects in Ahmedabad via video conferencing.  The proposed elevated corridor will connect Narol junction to Sarkhej junction in the city. It will come up on National Highway 47. The proposed project includes an 8-lane Lal Bahadur Shastri bridge. The elevated corridor starting from Narol junction to Sarkhej junction shall be six-lane. It will also cover the...Read More

Hazira – Suvali beach travel to be smoother; NHAI to build two flyover bridges

March 09, 2024

Surat: Two new flyover bridges will come up at the cross roads near Kavas patiya and at Petrol-pump char rasta near Reliance company in Hazira area of Surat. They will be built by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). They will be built at a total cost of Rs. 152 crore. Tender process is already underway for this project. Representations for these flyovers were made by local MLA Sandip Desai and Lok Sabha MP CR Patil. Both over bridges will make journey from Hazira to Suvali beach ...Read More

Centre sanctions Rs. 1532.97 crore for upgradation of National Highway projects in Gujarat

March 08, 2024
Centre sanctions Rs. 1532.97 crore for upgradation of National Highway projects in Gujarat

New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a post said approval has been given for widening of 12.4 km long Dhrol to Amaran section of National Highway-151-A in Morbi district of Gujarat to 4-lane at a cost of Rs 625.58 crore. He said, the Amritsar-Jamnagar corridor is the missing link from this section. The development of this missing link will complete the connectivity between four refineries in 3 states and several economic and social nodes in the pr...Read More