Soon, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar in 20 minutes
SG Highway, the busiest road in Ahmedabad, will be smoother for commuters within two years. The Gujarat government has floated a tender for the construction of a six-lane road and fly overs on the 44.5km stretch. The stretch of the six-lane roads with seven flyovers will be ready in two years. There will be no signal and no cross road junctions on SG Highway and one can reach from one end to the other in 20 minutes.
More than a lakh passenger car units travel on the SG Highway daily and at any given time, there are more than 10,000 vehicles on it. After the commercial and residential development in the areas spread on both sides of the road, the traffic is even higher on Mondays, weekends and festive days.
Junctions like Ujala Circle, Sanand Chokdi, Pakvan crossroads, Vaishno Devi circle, Unvarsad-Adalaj cross junction, Sargasan cross roads, and Infocity circle will have six-lane flyovers. An elevated flyover of 4.18km will be prepared from Sola Bhagvat Vidyapith Junction to Zydus Cross roads till the mouth of Thaltej underpass. The existing four-lane bridges at Sola-Science City and Khoraj-Khodiar junctions will be widened. Total cost of the entire project will be Rs 846 crore.
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