Only Mumbai-Pune, Mumbai-Nashik and Yamuna Expressway are qualified as Freeways or Expressways.
Mumbai-Pune is the best in India so far. No 2-wheelers, no 3-wheelers, no bull carts, no pedestrians, 3 lanes each side and one more lane for emeregency. It gives a feeling of US.
There is one more beatiful highway connecting Karwar to Mangalore in west coast which is called coastal highway.Almost 300 kilometers with best of nature with Palm grooves blue beaches side by number of rivers originating from western ghats joinig Arabian sea are making this one of the best highways in India. There is one place in the highway at Maravanthe which pass trough on one side sea waves touching the road and other a river flowing parallel to high way alomost three kilometers which seems to be only highway in the world!
Re: India's most spectacular highways.
by Prashanth R on Jul 13, 2012 12:17 PM
Quality of the Road is wirst possible here. And In rainy season just feels like entering see in a boat, while driving even mercedes!
Re: anywhere in india driving is a cruse
by desi twist on Jul 13, 2012 02:17 AM
Do you even drive or use those roads? Or its mere armchair commenting? I do not know about all the above mentioned roads, but can vouch for some roads: NICE road in Bangalore: 2 lane each side, you can coast quite comfortably at 120kmph. Its only in periphery of Bangalore though Bangalore-Mysore Road: Excellent road and you can again go at 100 , but it does not bypass many places so there you have to slow down ECR Road and GT road in TN: Again good roads. Bangalore-Chennai road (part of Golden Quadrilateral): excellent road. Eastern Express Highway in Mumbai: again an outstanding road.
Re: Re: Re: anywhere in india driving is a cruse
by desi twist on Jul 13, 2012 12:41 PM
Mr Know all Abhijit, since you seem to be seeing a lot of roads, please enlighten me with "good roads" that you know of!! And please supply valid reasons too while you are at it I've seen lots of roads BTW, driven in freeways in US too. I repeat my assertion that Bangalore Mysore road is good, only problem being that it does not bypass.
It is fascinating to see and read all about the Express Highways. I have specail nterst in your write ups with photograph as I have complted my book, but yet to publish, about the high way from Boston to Naigara Falls and from there to Chicago. When I travelled on road , OI was just comparing our roads in Idia. However, you can add the NH portion covering coastal line from Bhatkal right upto Panamburu near Mangalore in Karnataka . It will another fascinating sight for the road driving lovers .
Re: ADD ONE MAORE SECTOR COVERING COASTAL LINE
by Varun on Jul 13, 2012 01:25 AM
Don't forget that these Indian Roads made you see the roads from Boston to Niagara and blah blah..and you have to compare our roads with those and say thanks in your book to our roads that made you reach those roads...confusing? BE INDIAN MAN...don't start comparing things coz there is NO REPLACEMENT FOR INDIA...
The Bengaluru-Chennai highway NH7 is spectacular near Krishnagiri with 3x3 lanes in most stretches. However it's hard to enjoy the scenery with motorists at high speeds and all kinds of vehicles allowed. There are some amazing restaurants on the way. Another noteworthy expressway is the East Coast Road /ECR from Chennai to Pondicherry. It has some amazing beaches, rest areas have good fast food joints. However not being a NH, it is tolled. Again driving standards have to improve not just in these, but all over India.
"The joke is that most Gujaratis won't use this express highway"...He don't know most of the highway in Gujarat is tolled road. Gujarat have much better road infrastructure than any other state.
if it requires to account one reason which can hallmark the BJP-led NDA regime, then, sans an iota of doubt, it's their impressive/pioneering work in the infrastructure sector. That was the 1st govt in the histpry of india which had rightly laid max emphasis on this sector and brought about tangible changes realising this to be the engine for growth. Yet, the donkeys of india in an utter act of harakiri dislodged such fantastic govt whose overall performance was simply crucial especially after witnessing the brutal rape of india by con-gress-led upa for the last 8 yrs.
Re: all thanks to BJP-led NDA govt
by Ramachandran Nair on Jul 12, 2012 05:08 PM
NDA only made emphasis but implementation was done by UPA - in any case great work done and still continuing unabatedly.
Re: Re: all thanks to BJP-led NDA govt
by Rabri Devi on Jul 12, 2012 05:11 PM
implementation by UPA? ha ha ha. what a joke! they only put posters of sonia gandhi.
Re: Re: all thanks to BJP-led NDA govt
by desi twist on Jul 13, 2012 02:20 AM
Not sure about that, for example, much of the work on golden quadrilateral was done when NDA in power. In any case, i agree with you that it was really good initiative and execution.
Re: all thanks to BJP-led NDA govt
by Raj kumar on Jul 12, 2012 05:23 PM
Rightly said..Always used to think that..had NDA won the consecutive election..India must have been different now With NDA you remember infrastucture With Congress, you remember corruption, lack of inspiration and everything bad u would not want to happen
Re: all thanks to BJP-led NDA govt
by communalmedia on Jul 12, 2012 07:37 PM
Very true. Because of those donkeys who voted for UPA, we are made to suffer. The congress has no shame in putting up Antonio & Madam's maid servant photos along the highway.
From independence, our efforts in technology and infrastructure have followed one policy: RE-INVENT THE WHEEL. Rather than trying and creating our own road systems with plenty of scope for corruption, the government should have invested on bringing in foreign expertise and constructed everything to world standards.
Now decades later we are behind international standards by at least 40 years, and trying to play the catch-up game.
So please desist from comparing our system to Dubai and all (which became independent much later than us). It is all about the leaders' vision and conviction. Investment in Infrastructure is very basic and a really long term one.
