India’s Road Building Boom

[Plutonic Panda]

I'm sure it's no secret. India is building a fuck ton of new freeways and roads. I say good for them and I'm excited to see the future of their infrastructure.

https://www.worldhighways.com/wh8/news/indias-us205-billion-road-building-plans

[Chris]

Monkey crossings on an 'economic corridor'.

Economic corridors are mostly upgrades of existing national highways. These are usually a mix of greenfield routes and four lane upgrades of the existing roads. They are typically not fully access-controlled, in contrast to what they call expressways (freeways).

[Plutonic Panda]

That's kinda nice

[vdeane]

Interesting exit signs... have they been studying the MUTCD?

[kernals12]

Mumbai's coastal road is a pretty impressive feat of engineering. And when it's finished, I'm sure it will become a famous landmark, like Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

[Plutonic Panda]

Mumbai's coastal road is a pretty impressive feat of engineering. And when it's finished, I'm sure it will become a famous landmark, like Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

Isn't it pretty much finished by now? I thought it's being opened piece by piece at this point.

[Chris]

The Urban Extension Road II in Delhi has been inaugurated on Sunday.

It's a six lane express road with three lane service roads on most of the route, so much of it has 12 lanes. It's also considered to be the Third Ring Road of Delhi.












The Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh is nearly completed. They built a highway airstrip into the expressway, which is more of a complete runway than you usually see.








A new alignment of the Mumbai - Pune Expressway is under construction, which will replace a ridiculously curvy stretch of expressway originally built in 2002.







More and more packages of the Delhi - Mumbai Expressway are reaching completion. This might be the world's longest eight lane expressway (1200 kilometers). They also say it's the world largest earth works, with two, 1,200 kilometer long and 40 meter wide embankments.






The final section of the downtown section of the Coastal Road in Mumbai has been put into service last weekend.






A curved cable-stayed bridge at the Santa Cruz - Chembur Link Road to Western Expressway interchange in Mumbai was also put into service.

[Bobby5280]

The work looks fairly impressive. One of the few complaints I have is the right lanes have little if any inner shoulder next to the median barrier. That could make using the inside passing lane feel like a tight squeeze in heavy traffic.

Also, those arrows on the overhead signs really suck. Ugh.

[Jhoan Seb]

https://www.outlooktraveller.com/News/bro-sets-new-guinness-record-with-worlds-highest-motorable-road-at-19400-feet-in-ladakh
The Border Roads Organization (BRO for short) opened the highest motorable road in Eastern Ladakh.

[kphoger]

Crossed Chang La Pass in Ladakh, India at 17,688 feet for a new high for me.

https://www.outlooktraveller.com/News/bro-sets-new-guinness-record-with-worlds-highest-motorable-road-at-19400-feet-in-ladakh
The Borders Road Organization (BRO for short) opened the highest motorable road in Eastern Ladakh.

Looks like a second trip might be in order...

[hotdogPi]

I can't see it from the posted link, but Jhoan Seb posted on Discord several other signs posted by BRO, one of which says "Be gentle on my curves".

[JayhawkCO]

Crossed Chang La Pass in Ladakh, India at 17,688 feet for a new high for me.

https://www.outlooktraveller.com/News/bro-sets-new-guinness-record-with-worlds-highest-motorable-road-at-19400-feet-in-ladakh
The Borders Road Organization (BRO for short) opened the highest motorable road in Eastern Ladakh.

Looks like a second trip might be in order...

Nice! And looks like it'll be open to the public too. There is a higher pass than what I crossed, but it was only open to military traffic. And looks like the one you posted is 86 higher than my Kilimanjaro summit......... We'll have to see. It was a fun place to visit for sure. Curious what's on the other side that's worth seeing though. There was a beautiful lake (Pangong Tso) on the other side of Chang La.