Due to high volume of traffic on Delhi-Gurgaon Road, it was required to have smooth moving traffic. To facilitate this free flow, flyovers or underpasses are required at intersections (as done in the case of Ring Road or other roads in New Delhi). The earlier road that had 3 lanes on each side, has been converted into four lanes and is called 'Express Highway' now.

To justify that it is an expressway, toll has been levied only on four wheelers and speed limit has been increased. This means, if speed limit on Ring Road in Delhi is increased to 80 kmph, it can be converted into a toll road! Now should it be called an 'expressway' when except bullock carts or hand rickshaws, all other type of vehicles are using it where speed varies from 20 kmph to 120 kmph? Besides this speed variation, vehicles on this road also do not follow basic traffic rules, that is, use of proper lane. Even lot of vehicles are driven as if they are participating in 'fuel efficiency rally' to win prizes. This has resulted in further deterioration of the driving conditions.

There are other basic questions that arise, if this was required to be a paid road. My further query is that just by converting the Delhi-Gurgaon Road to four lanes and having same driving conditions with increased speed, can it be called an `expressway' or should toll be collected? It has just added a lane in the existing infrastructure. If they wanted an expressway or toll road, an exclusive road should have been made. Then they had the right to charge toll like that of DND flyover (from Delhi to Noida). For local traffic it would have been more appropriate to construct flyovers at all intersections as done on the Ring Road in Delhi or anywhere across the world.