[Talk-in] Renumbering National Highways

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Old - NH 1A (Srinagar-Jammu-Pathankot-Jalandhar) / NH 1
> (Jalandhar-Ambala-Delhi) / NH 2 (Delhi-Agra) / NH 3 (Agra-Gwalior) / NH 75
> (Gwalior-Datia-Jhansi) / NH 26 (Jhansi-Sagar-Lakhnadon) / NH 7
> (Lakhnadon-Nagpur-Adilabad-Hyderabad--Bengaluru-Salem-Madurai-Kanyakumari)
>
> New - NH 44 (Srinagar-Kanyakumari) - "Kashmir to Kanyakumari" now has a
> road to its name
>
> Old - NH 8 (Delhi-Jaipur Byepass-Udaipur-Ahmedabad-Ankleshwar-Mumbai) / NH
> 4 (Thane-Pune-Kolhapur-Hubli-Bengaluru) / NH 7 (Bengaluru-Krishnagiri) / NH
> 46 (Krishnagiri-Vellore-Ranipet) / NH 4 (Ranipet-Chennai)
>
> New - NH 48 (Delhi-Chennai)


So, there we are, hit 2 anomalies already. Old
NH46,NH4(Chennai-Ranipet-Krishnagiri) part of the new NH48 is actually on
east west direction but numbered as a north-south highway.They could have
made it as Chennai-Krishnagiri-Bangalore-Hassan-Mangalore as a east west
way.Probably they would have felt odd to touch golden quad.As said earlier,
they double counted Bangalore-Krishnagiri part. On the Kashmir-Kanyakumari
they have mentioned Bangalore-Salem as though they are flying over
Krishnagiri.Having a map will help us visualizing better and appreciate the
better aspects of the new numbering scheme.

Ofcourse the new numbering scheme will take some months to adjust as they
have altered highways starting from major cities and made them as part of
bigger / smaller chunks.

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Regards
Srikanth.L
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