[Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

On 20-Jul-2010, at 3:08 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

> This post[1] describes the "rationale". Even numbered highways will be in north-south direction and odd numbers would in east west direction.2 digit highways are major ones and 3 digit ones will be offshoots. The order of numbering starts from north to south.So NH 13 would be some where in north in the east west direction and and NH 944 will be an offshoot on NH44 which runs in north-south direction,somewhere in south i guess. We need to analyse more on the data to verify if pattern followed is uniform and truely scientific. Of course there are certain mistakes like it never says what is number of the Krishnagiri-Bangalore which forms part of both NS-corridor and golden quad.

So NH4 -- Mumbai to Chennai via Bangalore -- will now have two numbers? Because it runs north-south from Mumbai to Bangalore, and east-west from Bangalore to Chennai.

Bangalore - Krishnagiri is technically NH7, which (IIRC) runs Madurai to Delhi via Bangalore, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Bhopal. However, the section between Bangalore and Krishnagiri is a diversion from the original NH4 to Chennai.

Looks like this new scheme is going to be a mess to figure out. :-)

Kiran