Expressway Toll is Costlier: Expressway travel in UP will be 25 percent more expensive than national highway

Expressway Toll is Costlier National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will collect this fee from the day the expressway becomes operational. NHAI will earn a good income from truck operators. Currently, the toll is Rs 330, then it will be around Rs 413. Expressway will be 25 percent more expensive than the national highway.

Expressway Toll: Those traveling on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway will have to pay 25 percent more toll than the toll on the national highway. This toll will be collected from the first day of this expressway.

Overall, if you are traveling from Lucknow to Kanpur or Kanpur to Lucknow in your private car, then the toll for a single journey i.e. one way is currently Rs 100 on the national highway. The same toll will be Rs 125 on the expressway.

Overall, the expressway will be 25 percent more expensive than the national highway. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will collect this fee from the day the expressway becomes operational. NHAI will earn a good income from truck operators. Currently the toll is Rs 330, at that time it will be around Rs 413.

NHAI officials said that the date for completion of work is July 31, but the grace period is till October 31, 2025. Currently, the elevated work is above 90 percent and the green field work is 94 percent.

It will be completed by July at any cost. Also, the finishing work is also being done by the working agency at present. The authority is focusing on the work of the road over bridge being built at Amarsas, which falls in Unnao, on the entire expressway. Some work is left over the railway line here. Which is being done at a fast pace. Three flyovers are also being built on the expressway. According to officials, a proposal for five tolls has been sent within a radius of 63 km. These will be on slip roads. The driver will have to pay toll at only one toll.

If the journey is expensive, there will be facilities too

Basic facilities will be provided to the passengers at all the tolls of Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. There will be petrol pumps, points for charging electric vehicles. Ambulance and police picket will be arranged at every toll. NHAI will equip this 63 km route with CCTV cameras. Apart from this, the process of opening private restaurants and dhabas will be adopted in a phased manner.

Vehicle Single journey Return journey also

  • Car, Jeep and Light Motor Vehicle 125 – 181
  • Mini bus, light commercial vehicle 200- 294
  • Bus and truck (two axle) 413- 619
  • Three axle commercial vehicle 450- 675

Oversized vehicle 794- 1187

Note: This is the list of toll rates likely to be collected on Lucknow to Kanpur Expressway. According to NHAI officials, toll will be collected by adding 25 percent amount to the toll being collected at Nawabganj toll. If 25 percent amount is reduced from this, then it will match the list of Nawabganj toll.

Toll plazas of Lucknow Kanpur Expressway will be built here

It is proposed to be built in Miranpur Pinwat, Khandedev, Bani, Amarsas (near Unnao-Lalganj) and Azad Nagar. NHAI will start the work of building toll plazas as soon as the reply to the letter from the Road Transport Ministry is received. These are to be operated by private agencies in future.

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