Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, announced on Thursday that the much-awaited Bengaluru-Chennai motorway will open to traffic sooner than anticipated, at the very least by the end of 2023. The greenfield project, which would cost ₹17,000 crore to complete, was initially scheduled to be finished by March 2024.With the highway, it will take only two hours to travel between the two major cities. It is a four-lane, 285.3 km-long construction. At Ashok Leylands 75th anniversary festivities on Thursday in Chennai, Gadkari addressed the media.🚨 Bengaluru-Chennai expressway to take just 2 hrs when inaugurated on Jan, 2024. It takes 4 hrs for Vande Bharat train and 1 hr for flight – Nitin Gadkari pic.twitter.com/5y8MQcMLWY— Indian Tech & Infra (@IndianTechGuide) September 7, 2023 The official statement“I reviewed the progress of National Highways projects in Chennai today. The Bengaluru-Chennai Express Highway will start by this years end, or January 2024. So, you can launch luxury buses and sleeper coaches in this sector,” the minister mentioned while talking to PTIHe also mentioned, “We are making good roads. We are connecting Delhi to Chennai via Surat, Nasik, Ahmednagar, Kurnool, Chennai (and beyond too), Kanyakumari, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi (and also to) Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, through the access-controlled highways project.”He added that he was pleased with how quickly National Highway projects were moving along and that work on the Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Elevated Motorway project will soon get underway as well. The minister added that he had introduced in Bengaluru an Ashok Leyland car that could run on fuel combined with methanol.
