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India opens first superhighway
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May 11, 2000 |
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Motorists share the roads with not only trucks, buses and bicycles, but pedestrians, cows and camels too. And traffic fatalities are consequently high. That's why the government has built the country's first superhighway. The six-lane, concrete speedway links Bombay, India's largest city, with the city of Pune. It winds over bridges, along mountain passes and through tunnels, and features more than 20 lanes for carts and about 30 pedestrian underpasses and bridges. Motorists will be able to make the trek from Bombay to Pune in just two hours, compared to the previous four. In the next 20 years, India plans to build 7,500 more miles of expressway, making its roadways safer, transportation more efficient and India, well, perhaps a little less like India.
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