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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.

The Pune Municipal Corporation launched Urban Street Design Guidelines for areas falling under the city limits in 2016. These set ground rules were formed to ensure appropriate street types and street designs. Two years into the program, Pune has won accolades from the experts as well as the central government for executing the project. So far, work on the JM Road, Bhonde Colony and the Tilak Road have been completed while the congested stretches of the Laxmi Road, the Bajirao Road and the Kumthekar Road are next in the queue.  

A draft policy on road safety that has been placed in the public domain by the Delhi government's Transport Department identifies encroachments as one of the reasons behind road accidents and calls for recognition of rights of pedestrians. Here we examine the key points that have found a mention in the draft.

The Bharatmala project, which is touted as the biggest infrastructure project in the history of India, is expected to impact businesses of as many as 25 toll projects across the country. According to a report by rating agency Icra, these toll road projects, with a debt of Rs 19,435 crore, are at risk due to the planned economic corridors under the Bharatmala project.

Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that work on the Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway would start soon. The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is a greenfield access-controlled highway developed at a cost of Rs 1 lakh crore and will take three years for completion. Aimed at reducing the travel time between the two cities from 20 hours to 12 hours, the project will also have a new alignment covering several backward areas of the country and lead to industrial growth.