Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadgari has said that the Dwarka Expressway will be operational by 2023. This will help to control the increasing air pollution in the national capital and reduce traffic congestion on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway. This will be the first elevated urban road in the country and will help alleviate the travel woes of West Bengal commuters.
The expressway project connecting Delhi's Dwarka with Haryana's Gurugram is being built at an investment of Rs 9,000 crore. 19 km of the route is in Haryana and about 10 km is in Delhi. This route is part of the Delhi-Jaipur-Ahmedabad-Mumbai quadrangle. About 50 to 60 percent of the vehicles on the national highway will be diverted through this route. This will reduce traffic congestion. More than 12,000 saplings will be planted along the path.
There will be 4 multi-level interchanges (tunnel/underpasses, grade road, elevated flyover and flyover over flyover) at major junctions. Construction of India's longest (3.6 km) and widest (8 lane) urban road tunnel will begin at the Shiv- Murthy stretch of National Highway 8 and end at the Kherki Daula Toll Plaza in Gurugram. There will be modern transport systems, toll system, CCTV cameras and state-of-the-art security.