Purvanchal Expressway will connect Lucknow To Ghazipur. Foundation stone laid in mid July 2018

Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh is being touted as India's longest expressway that will connect Lucknow to Ghazipur. Its foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Azamgarh on Saturday, 2018-07-14. The six-lane Purvanchal Expressway can be expanded to eight lanes. The Purvanchal Expressway project is expected to cost Rs 23,000 crore and is likely to be completed in record three years' time. An air-strip will be constructed in Sultanpur district to facilitate landing of Indian Air Force aircraft in emergency situation.

1. The Purvanchal Expressway, which is 340-km-long, will not just increase connectivity but also give a boost to agriculture, commerce, tourism and industries besides social and economic development in the areas through which it will pass.

2. The Expressway will connect Lucknow with Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur.

3. It will be linked with the Lucknow-Agra Expressway and Yamuna Expressway which connects Agra to Delhi and will considerably bring down the travel time between Delhi and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

4. The Purvanchal Expressway will be linked with Varanasi through a separate link.

5. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has called Purvanchal Expressway to be "the lifeline of development in east Uttar Pradesh".

Muzaffarpur to Delhi - Indian Roadie Preferred Route

Jyotshna Srivastava and husband drove their Hyundai i20 Muzaffarpur to Delhi starting at the wee hours of Sunday, 2019-11-10 on the following Indian Roadie Preferred Route:

Muzaffarpur - Pipra Kothi (near Motihari) - Gandak River bridge - Dewapur - Gopalganj bypass - Tadwa Toll Plaza - Kushinagar (Gautam Buddha National Hospital on  right of NH28) - Kushinagar (Buddha PG College on left of NH28) - Gorakhpur - Basti - Ayodhya - Faizabad - Lucknow - AL Expressway - Agra - Yamuna Expressway - Budh International Circuit - Noida - New Delhi.

They crossed the flyover on NH28 near LN Mishra College of Business Management at Bhagwanpur Chatti, Muzaffarpur at 2.30am.

Passed by Budh International Circuit in Greater Noida at the fag end of Yamuna Expressway at 11.30pm.

The leisurely drive of 1030 kms took them an unbelievably long 21 hrs.
Their 6 yrs old son was also with them in the car. There were multiple halts enroute for food, rest, refueling.

The road was good throughout.
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We in Indian Roadie believe that the ideal time frame (with short refreshment, refueling and biological breaks) can be as follows:

Muzaffarpur (Lnmcbm, Bhagwanpur) - Lucknow (intersection of NH28 and Agra Lko Expressway at Narona in Lucknow) = 550 kms/ 10 hrs.

Lucknow (start of Agra Lko Expressway at Narona) to Agra (intersection of ALE and YE) = 310 kms/ 4 hrs.

Agra (intersection of ALE and YE, near Kuberpur) to Greater Noida (Budh International Circuit) = 170 kms/ 3 hrs.