Firstly people have the right to drink as much as they like providing they are not driving a motor vehicle or pregnent. I do not drink alcohol. I hold a Class...
All, Came across a great site , which I wanted to share with all . This site has some very good motoring trips with instructions , travel routes , destinations...
Finally the whole stretch is now open. This marks the second such expressway stretch in India of this length ( close to 100 kms ) and quality, after the Mumbai...
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Aug 6, 2004 8:12 pm
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This is great news for motorists, and for NRI's like me. I would like to have seen some pictures of the ceremony, as well as the existing and completed...
This is a good site... interesting information about the projects that belong to ILFS... For the visually stimulated, check out the photo gallery link at the...
Some updates have been posted for the month of July. Maps are still of date (at least the ones I looked at). Overall progress at: http://www.nhai.org/t4.htm ...
Now that Mumbai-Chennai part of the GQ is done in some major stretches, can someone tell me if worth travelling on that to go from Pune to Goa (via Belgaum)?...
Total completed length has gone up by 146km - from 2892km to 3038km. More than 50% of GQ is complete for the first time! I don't see any new sections in the...
Dear IndiaHighways'ers, as posted earlier today by a fellow IH'er, the NHAI web site now lists over 50% of the GQ as having been completed. While a few details...
Having travelled on the Delhi-Agra route myself, I can say that we have made only partial progress. Delhi to Faridabad is sheer hell. There are traffic lights...
"Having spent many years in US" doesn't make you a guru of US transportation system nor does it signify that you know anything about highway system in ...
Well pardon me for mixing terms such as expressway, highway and state route. I by no means claim to be an expert in terminology even though I have spent 19...
Sameer, Could you share with us the travelouge's address. I am specially interested to see the pictures he took. Meanwhile I found another travelouge by some...
Here's a recent blog from an American desi. http://india2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/to-agra-7-july-2004.html I drove on the stretch from Delhi to Faridabad in...
By US highway, the guy would have meant a US highway, literally. (and NOT interstate highways with the red and blue shield logos)..I am talking about the...
Perfect!! This is exactly what I was trying to say. In fact, sometimes if you are not pressed for time, its quite an experience to travel on US highways (US...
Check out: http://www.jsalaw.com/files/JSA%20IIU%20June-July%202004.pdf There is a section on roads as well. Not too much about GQ time time. I wonder if...
Absolutely correct! There's no point comparing indian roads with roads in the US or other developed countries. We're light years behind them! And we're not...
Hi everyone, Am trying to find some information about financing of expressways in India. I understand that there are primarily two streams of income - one from...
I must congratulate the people behind the GQ and NSEW projects for their hard work and effort that has been put in to get this off the ground. However,...
Manoj, I should correct myself slightly - I was going through a web photo album and not a web account. This was about 2 weeks before I posted. Unfortunately, I...
It is the vicious circle, cause the countries that Virendra mentioned in his email are now following the footsteps of China and India to make their ...
This is good news indeed. Haryana continues it's momentum on the roadways front which has given it the reputation as the state with the best highways in the...
Sameer Madan
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Aug 19, 2004 7:59 pm
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This Indian Express story reveals disturbing new details about progess on GQ (or lack thereof). A couple of contracts have been terminated, and many others are...
This Indian Express story reveals disturbing new details about progess on GQ (or lack thereof). A couple of contracts have been terminated, and many others are...
Abhi, the one positive arising out of this is that the NHAI / UPA government combine seems to be pro-active in terms of trying to ensure the GQ does not end up...
The direction the US takes is not always the right one... Many local US governments have made public transit inefficient and a general drain on the public...
