I drove on the newly built Bharuch-Vadodara stretch, which saved me an hour’s travel time.
BHPian vattyboy recently shared this with other enthusiasts.
I recently travelled from Surat to Udaipur and decided to take the newly built Bharuch-Vadodara stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, which was inaugurated by PM Modi a few weeks ago. Here are some things to keep in mind if you plan to take this expressway:
- To access this expressway, you must leave the regular Ahmedabad-Mumbai highway and take a left turn from Ankeleshwar from the underpass.
- Once you’ve driven 30 km, you will enter this expressway.
- The surface quality and smoothness of the expressway are decent and better than Samruddhi Mahamarg, which I drove on recently.
- There is no traffic on this expressway. I set my cruise control to 120 km/h and only disengaged it when the expressway ended.
- There is no toll for this expressway for now.
- Although speed cameras are installed, they are not functional yet.
- It’s sad to see that local villagers were entering the expressway, riding bikes on the wrong side, taking photos, and even playing cricket at one spot. It seems to be a picnic destination for them. To ensure safety, I recommend avoiding the last left lane while driving.
- This expressway ends and joins the 4-lane Vadodara-Ahmedabad expressway, 10 km ahead of Vadodara.
- Due to the good speeds I maintained, it took me only one hour to travel 10 km ahead of Vadodara from Bharuch.
- I reached Vadodara in 2.5 hours instead of continuing on the old Ahmedabad-Mumbai highway, which would have taken 3.5 hours.
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