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