Western Peripheral Expressway
The Western Peripheral Expressway or Kundli–Manesar–Palwal Expressway, is an operational 6-lane, -long Expressway in the Haryana state of India. Along with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway, the Western Peripheral Expressway is expected to divert more than 50,000 heavy vehicles away from Delhi, which will help to maintain good air quality in Delhi. Western Peripheral Expressway along with Eastern Peripheral Expressway completes the largest Ring Road around Delhi. Each of the 10 entries and exits are tolled. Toll rate notified in december 2018 is INR1.35 per km for cars, INR2.18 per km for light motor vehicles, INR4.98 per km for trucks and buses, and two wheelers are not permitted on the expressway.
Two kilometer belt on either side of this expressway has been notified as controlled zone where five new contiguous greenfield cities will be developed as part of Delhi-Sonipat-Rohtak-Gurugram-Faridabad agglomeration. Delhi Metro Phase-V entails a proposed new metro route along this expressway.
History
The 53-km Manesar to Palwal section was inaugurated by Nitin Gadkari in April 2016. The remaining 83-km-long Kundli to Manesar section of KMP expressway was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 19 November 2018. Toll plazas became operational on KMP Expressway in December 2018.In 2003, the Western Peripheral Expressway was first proposed along with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway as a Build Operate Transfer project to construct a 135.6 km, access controlled four lane expressway from NH-1 near Kundli, Sonipat to NH-2 near Palwal. Since Delhi would benefit from rerouting the vehicular away from it, Delhi state agreed to bear half of the land acquisition cost of the expressway. In 2006, the Haryana government began work on Western Peripheral Expressway project, when the tender was awarded to KMP Expressways ltd. with commercial operations supposed to begin in June 2009, which was revised to May 2013. In 2016, repeated delays forced the Government of Haryana to terminate the contract and pay KMP Expressways and lenders as termination payment. In January 2016, after intervention of the Supreme Court of India, the project was revived and new bids were invited, and the plan was upgrade from four lanes to six lanes. The whole completed expressway became operational in November 2018.
Route and Interchanges
There are 10 tolled entry and exit points. There are 52 underpasses and 23 overpasses, including the following:- 4 railway overbridges,
- 10 overpasses and underpasses at crossings on the national highways and state highways,
- 7 overpasses, 9 underpasses and 27 underpasses at crossings on major district roads and village roads,
- 33 agricultural vehicular underpasses, 31 cattle crossing passages, 61 pedestrian crossing passages.
| Location | Highway | Route | Type of Road Interchange | Corresponding Multimodel Passenger Interchange |
| Kundli | NH 44 | Delhi-Panipat-Ambala GT-Road | Cloverleaf | Kundli MMTS |
| Kharkhoda | NH18 | Delhi-Bawana-Kharkhoda-Rohtak | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | |
| Bahadurgarh | NH 9 | Delhi-Rohtak-Hisar-Sirsa | Cloverleaf | Bahadurgarh MMTS |
| Badli | SH123 | Jhajjar-Badli-Gurgaon | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | |
| Farrukhnagar | NH15A | Delhi-Jhajjar | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | |
| Pachgaon | NH26 | Gurugram-Pataudi-Rewari-Narnaul | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | Panchgaon Chowk MMTS |
| Manesar | NH 48 | Gurugram-Bhiwadi-Jaipur | Cloverleaf | Kherki Daula MMTS |
| Taoru | NH 919 | Gurugram-Sohna-Bhiwadi-Jaipur | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | |
| Sohna | NH 248A | Gurugram-Nuh-Ferozepur Jhirka | T-Roundabout interchange & flyover | |
| Palwal | NH19 | Faridabad-Hodal-Mathura-Agra-Yamuna Expressway | Cloverleaf | Balramgarh MMTS |
Facilities
The expressway has fuel refilling stations, 2 truck stops, 4 bus stands, 1 medical trauma centre with helipad, traffic police stations and 5 passenger multimodel transit stations with refreshment and recreational facilities.Theme Cities
The Government of Haryana envisages development of profile land uses as Knowledge City, Medi City, Fashion City, Leisure and Entertainment Cities, Cyber City and Dry-Port facility along with other similar developments, resulting in establishment of five new cities 2 km wide on either side along this express way in public-private partnership mode. Haryana govt has notified this plan and implementation started by inviting bids for preparing the Master Plan for the first city as 50,000 hectare 'Manesar Global City.Multimodal Transit Centres
is building 5 Multimodal Transit Centres along this expressway at Sonipat, Bahadurgarh, Gurugram and Faridabad in the following places for which the land has been already acquired :From north to south:
- Kundli MMTS: Located at Kundli : between Rajiv Gandhi Education City and under-coonstruction Delhi-Panipat RRTS station.
- Bahadurgarh MMTS: Located at Bahadurgarh between the bus stand and Bahadurgarh City metro station.
- Panchagaon Chowk MMTS: Located at Pachgaon Chowk in Manesar between the proposed metro station and under-construction Delhi-Alwar RRTS station, and Jhajjar-Palwal rail line.
- Kherki Daula MMTS: Located at Kherki Daula in Gurugram near the proposed metro station, under-coonstruction Delhi-Alwar RRTS station and bus stand on the junction of Chhapra and Naihati villages.
- Balramgarh MMTS: Located at Balramgarh between Raja Nahar Singh metro station, bus stand and Balramgarh railway station.