Greater Noida: A rush again house for a protracted weekend and Holi break led to a 3 km lengthy visitors chaos at Jewar toll plaza on the Yamuna Expressway. The automobiles moved at a snail’s tempo on the expressway’s toll plaza on Saturday (March 27), particularly within the afternoon. The visitors chaos was a consequence of the absence of FASTag toll system and holi rush.
The lengthy strains and big pile of automobiles pressured the commuters to take the problem up on social media. The netizens began posting footage and movies of the state of affairs and lots of customers tagged Minister for highway transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, of their tweets.
One such particular person was recognized as Manish Bajpai, a commuter, who posted, “This is the status of Yamuna Expressway Jewar toll plaza and the queue is 45 minutes long! Wondering how much fuel is burnt for no reason? Please do something to save this.” Vivek Gupta, one other commuter, wrote, “Imagine spending 30 minutes on a toll plaza in 2021.”
Another commuter, Jitendra Singh straight-forwardly questioned the minister on Twitter. “Why the toll is not digitised. Where is your promise?” he requested.
Followed by one other tweet by a person caught in the identical visitors chaos, Mayank. He requested why the FASTag system, which is the digitalised toll system, was but to be applied on the Yamuna Expressway when most different highways throughout the nation had adopted it. “The Yamuna Expressway is also in the same country. I am a frequent traveller on this expressway. If this is the situation of private tolls, the government should start controlling them. If we have to wait so much, why should we pay the toll?” requested Mayank.
Marked as one of the essential connectivity between Delhi-Greater Noida-Agra, the 165 km lengthy Yamuna expressway can also be a big route for small towners from western UP and Bihar. The Yamuna Expressway Authority has deliberate to implement FASTags on the expressway from April 1. The six lane freeway witnesses 28,000-30,000 automobiles day by day and the toll remains to be collected manually.
