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According to official data, currently there are about 670 toll plazas on the entire NH network. “Transaction through FASTag is happening at all NH toll plazas. The share of toll payment transactions done through the FASTag has touched almost 85%,” said an NHAI official. So far as the tolled roads under the state government are concerned all 19 toll plazas under the Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd, 18 on the roads under Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, 17 plazas each under MP Road Development Corporation and UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority allow paying user fee through FASTag. Similarly, 13 stretches in Gujarat, 15 under the Karnataka Road Development Corporation and 10 under the TN Road Development Company also allows toll charge payment through FASTag. ....
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 measu ....
According to official data, currently there are about 670 toll plazas on the entire NH network. “Transaction through FASTag is happening at all NH toll plazas. The share of toll payment transactions done through the FASTag has touched almost 85%,” said an NHAI official. So far as the tolled roads under the state government are concerned all 19 toll plazas under the Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd, 18 on the roads under Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, 17 plazas each under MP Road Development Corporation and UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority allow paying user fee through FASTag. Similarly, 13 stretches in Gujarat, 15 under the Karnataka Road Development Corporation and 10 under the TN Road Development Company also allows toll charge payment through FASTag. ....
In addition to the above, a ‘Check Balance Status' feature has been added to the ‘My FASTag App’. The app will show the FASTag wallet balance status in colour codes green for a tag with sufficient balance, orange for low balance, and red for those in negative, said the release. ....