Colonies near Yamuna Expressway to get link road

GREATER NOIDA: To provide hassle-free connectivity for residential sectors coming up along the Yamuna Expressway, the Authority has sped up work on the toll free 120m-wide service road parallel to the speedway. The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority ( YEIDA) claims to have already completed over 50% of the construction work and the service road will be ready for use within a year.
The 36km long service road running parallel to the e-way is being constructed between the zero point near Galgotia College (where the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway meets Yamuna Expressway) and Jewar. YEIDA has already completed work on 20km of the link road and it would be opened to traffic by middle of next year. The road will benefit thousands of people expected to move in to the sectors along the expressway by providing them a toll free link road. Currently, the 165km long expressway is the only link road for these areas.

"The link road will mainly benefit people in and around Sectors 18 and 20 that fall along the expressway. While most of the commercial and residential development work is currently still underway, we have sped up work on the link road to ensure that it is ready for use well in time before major development work is complete and a substantial population moves in the area," a YEIDA official said.

"Around 25,000 people have been allotted residential plots in Sector 18 and 20 under a scheme launched by the Authority. Several more will move in the next few years once the residential and commercial development work is complete," he said.

The link road will also include a 30m-wide dedicated green belt between the left and the right carriageways. Once the link road is ready, users will need to cross the underpass at Galgotia College and take it to reach areas in and around Sectors 18 and 20.

YEIDA is also planning to eventually connect the parallel service road to the under-construction 28km-long, 130m wide Noida-Greater Noida link road to provide a signal-free connectivity for sectors along Yamuna Expressway to Noida, Greater Noida and Delhi.

The eight-lane Noida-Greater Noida link road is being constructed between Parthala Khanjarpur in Sector 122 of Noida and Sirsa-Kasna in Greater Noida by the Greater Noida Authority.