NEW DELHI: Twenty eight ring roads around big cities, 45 bypasses, 34 projects of expanding lanes and flyovers will be taken up in the next one-and-half years to end traffic choke points in urban areas. "The focus is to provide better connectivity to all regions and improve mobility. At present, 300 districts have such high speed connectivity," Gadkari said.He said a total of 50,000 km of highways will be developed and widened under Bharatmala programme. Highways secretary Y S Malik said completion of the highway development programme is aimed at reducing travel time by 25% and reducing the logistics cost by about 4%. Smaller trucks or goods vehicles will work as feeders to carry goods from logistic parks to the cities.

Source: Times of India October 25, 2017 17:26 UTC