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To: razoroccam
Anyone from India - are you seeing this roadwork in reality?

Oh yeah, almost on a daily basis. Though roads in Gujarat have always been good and wide, the new "Golden Quadrilateral" and the "North-South" and " East West" corridors aim for wide and smoooth freeway-like roads connecting all corners and metros in the country. Though initially a State Govt. project, the countrys first Expressway NE 1 (about 100 km long) which connects Ahmedabad and Vadodara (Baroda) has cut transit time to just about an hour. It takes more time in the cities to approach the expressway than on the expressway itself. Now there is a plan to extend this to Surat in the next stage and then to Mumbai in the next after that. The Ahmedabad - Mumbai section of National Highway 8 (NH8) is the busiest road in India.

These roads will change the face of India. But sadly, it does not have the same priority under this Govt. that it had under the previous BJP govt.

10 posted on 12/04/2005 7:17:41 AM PST by IndianChief
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To: IndianChief

Thanks.
Interesting that Gujarat, the so-called bastion of "Hindu" zealotory, is making such progress.


12 posted on 12/04/2005 7:47:55 AM PST by razoroccam (Then in the name of Allah, they will let loose the Germs of War (http://www.booksurge.com))
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