Source : TOI / 10th March / IST / https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/kherki-toll-shift-once-dwarka-e-way-complete-says-gadkari/articleshow/90110846
Residents of Gurgaon’s new sectors will have to live with the Kherki Daula toll plaza for some more months, with Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday saying that it will be shifted only after the completion of the Dwarka Expressway. Removal or shifting of the toll has been a longstanding demand of local residents, for whom travelling even within the city entails crossing the plaza daily, losing both time and money in the process. “The demand for the shifting of the Kherki Daula toll plaza has been made several times. We are completing the Dwarka Expressway soon and when that’s opened, we will shift the toll plaza,” Gadkari said at an event in Panchgaon near Manesar. The Union minister, who was in Gurgaon to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of as many as 19 projects worth Rs 1,407 crore for improvement of the Delhi-Jaipur highway, said another key road project in the city – the Sohna elevated road — will be completed this year. Among the projects for vhich he laid the foundation tone were an elevated road and bridge to be constructed at Manesar at a cost of Rs 86 crore, a flyover at Bilaspur that will be built for Rs 34 crore, and a flyover at Bawal for Rs 25 crore. Besides, the entire stretch between Delhi and Jaipur will be repaired at a cost of Rs 400 crore. with the work in the road’s Haryana section expected to cost over Rs 260 crore.
GADKARI SAYS – We are completing the Dwarka Expressway soon, and when that’s opened, we will shift the toll plaza
An accident in the early hours of March 4 near a potholed entry to a service lane of the highway led to the death of five people — all colleagues — as their car apparently crashed into the back of a truck near Highway King Hotel in Binola. Noting that the service roads of the highway were in poor condition and had been encroached upon, Gadkari appealed to the Rajasthan and Haryana governments to cooperate so that they could attempt to remove the encroachments and make the service roads “properly”.