The Centre is planning to build a 19-km highway starting from Loni near the Delhi-Ghaziabad border to the Akshardham flyover. The new highway will allow commuters to avoid the congested areas of east Delhi and reach the Saharanpur-bound national highway NH709B near Loni from the NH-24 directly. The project has received an in-principle approval while it may take upto three months to file a detailed project report.

After the first trial run that was conducted in April between Greater Noida Depot and Sector 147, the second set of runs began on July 25. The trial run is now being conducted between Noida Sector 83 and Greater Noida Metro Depot. The project being developed by the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) at an estimated cost of Rs 5,503 crore, is expected to become operational in December this year.

If all goes as planned, Mumbaikars will have the good fortune of having India’s first skyscraper bridge between Worli and Sewri. Planned in 2011, the project did not make any headway at that time, but has been revived by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) now.

The first phase of the Mumbai Coastal Road project, a proposed 34-kilometre freeway running along the western coastline, is expected to begin by October 2018. The freeway will link Princess Street Flyover near Marine Lines to the south-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) under Phase-I and upto Kandivali under Phase-II. The project will be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 15,000 crore and will decongest the Western Express Highway and boost real estate developments across the western Mumbai.

Phase-II-and-III of the Barapullah Road will make the commute easier between east and south Delhi. The two-km section would connect the existing stretch of Akshardham-Jawaharlal Nehru to INA Market and Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi, passing through Sewa Nagar Railway Crossing, Kushak drain and Lodhi Colony.