Data sourced from technology startup Bulleye Technologies, which tracks traffic flow at over over 400 toll plazas across the country, showed that at 7 pm on Thursday, the waiting time at Aliyapur toll plaza in Kanpur Nagar was 27 minutes.
While the situation was not as bad across several other toll plazas, it still added up to 9-10 minutes, something that FASTags that are now mandatory were supposed to eliminate. For traffic heading towards Gurgaon from Jaipur, the waiting time at the Kheri Dahula toll plaza was over nine minutes.
Similarly, at Vadodara toll plaza in Gujarat, the waiting time was over 10 minutes, while it was just under nine minutes at the Gegal toll plaza in Ajmer.
Government considering free passage to ease traffic jams in FASTag lanes Updated Feb 19, 2021 | 12:46 IST
In view of the hassles and long wait times faced by commuters at toll plazas NHAI plans to direct toll plaza operators to allow vehicles without paying toll if there are long queues. Government considering free passage to ease traffic jams in FASTag lanes
Earlier this month, India s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways made FASTag mandatory for all vehicles in the country. No, for real this time no extensions at all, at least that s what Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, said recently. Anyway, even as we have fully embraced FASTag lanes, with the aim to ease traffic on toll booths among other things, the truth is that some problems continue to persist. Especially, traffic jams in toll booth lanes. Thankfully, this hasn t escaped the government s eye, which is now said to be considering different measures to help add
One toll booth worker called the situation ‘chaotic’. However, officials said that they expected to face non-cooperation and teething troubles during the initial phase, but expect them to smoothen over quickly.
‘FASTag bazaar’ springs up at toll plazas ahead of compulsory rule
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February 15, 2021 20:20 IST
Banks and agents set up tents to offer the RFID tags at attractive offers in no time
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Banks and agents set up tents to offer the RFID tags at attractive offers in no time
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways’ (MoRTH) decision to declare all lanes at toll plazas on National Highways ‘FASTag lanes’ from midnight of 15th/16th February, has turned the premises leading to toll complexes in undivided Nalgonda a bazaar for FASTags.
At least 20 member banks of the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) programme through their point-of-sales have made the Pantangi toll plaza, the second busiest gate in the State, at Choutuppal on NH-65 (Hyderabad-Vijayawada) their base camp. The agents set up their tents on either side of the toll complex, to offer the Radio Frequency Identification tags at attractive offers in no time. A customer would