Friday, August 21, 2009

On the way....

ON THE WAY trip to white mountains, we drive all the way from Boston, MA to NewHampshire. During that trip, i was looking at the roads and the signs on the way. The infrastructure facilities is too good particularly the roads are too good. We are travelling on I-93 National highway road. There are two separate roads towards north and south with atleast 2-3 lanes. There will be separate exit to each and every small city and town in between. The directions and signs are superb, Gps is there. I am attaching some of the pictures of that roads which i have took on the way. It feels good to drive on these roads.

I was also thinking when my country will get all these infrastructure facilities from jammu to kanyakumari. I checked what the are current infrastructure road projects running. There are lot of development activities taken by the current government for infrastructure development and there are lot of phases involved in it. some of the project include 1) The Golden Quadrilateral, will convert the national highway connecting the four major metros to four lanes, a stretch of 5,846 km. 2) the North-South and East West corridor plans to link Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Silchar to Porbander, a stretch of 7,300 km. Government is working on these but very very slow. The first project is supposed to be over on 2004 and the second on 2009. but still both are ongoing projects. Sooner i want to see my country getting all infrastructure road facilities done. Lets c.

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