Kalyani Expressway
{{Short description|Expressway in West Bengal, India}}
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{{infobox road
| country = IND
| name = Kalyani Expressway
| alternate_name =
| map =
| length_km = 44.17
| direction_a = South
| junction = Barasat Road in Sodepur
Nilgunj Road in Khardaha
State Highway 2 in Barrackpore
Kakinara - Rafipur Road in Kankinara
Naihati - Habra Road in Naihati
Halisahar - Malancha Road in Halisahar
Kanchrapara - Haringhata Road in Kanchrapara
State Highway 1 in Kalyani
| direction_b = North
| terminus_b = Bansberia, Hooghly district
| formed =
| history =
| states = West Bengal
| districts =Hooghly district, Nadia district, North 24 Parganas district
| maint = Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
| image = Kalyani Expressway.jpg
| photo_alt = Kalyani expressway, Kampa
}}
Kalyani Expressway is a {{convert|44.17|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}}, 4-6 laned, tolled expressway in the state of West Bengal, India. It connects Kolkata with its satellite city Kalyani and declared as an expressway by Government of West Bengal.{{cite web|url=http://www.pwdwb.in/html/sh.php# |title=State High Way in West Bengal|access-date=11 March 2012}} The road starts from Belghoria Expressway in Nimta and ends in Bansberia of Hooghly district. The main carriageway is 6 laned (except some low traffic areas where it is 4 laned) and each side there are 2 laned service roads.{{cite news|last=Mondal|first=Biswadeep|date=2018|title=Tender floated for six-lane elevated connector in West Bengal|newspaper=Times of India|url=https://www.projectstoday.com/News/Tender-floated-for-six-lane-elevated-connector-in-West-Bengal|access-date=4 June 2021}} The road is developed by West Bengal Highway Development Corporation.{{Cite news|last=Mondal|first=Biswadeep|date=2017|title=Belgharia - Kalyani Expressway Link|work=Millennium Post|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/soon-belgharia-kalyani-e-ways-to-be-connected-with-elevated-corridor-221356}}
Route
The road serves as a faster connection between Kolkata and its northern suburbs in the Kolkata metropolitan region, including Sodepur, Barrackpore, Naihati and Kalyani. The road acts an alternative to the Barrackpore Trunk Road and significantly brought down the communication time between the cities from 2 hours to 40 minutes. The road has important interchanges with feeder roads to all the northern suburbs like Belgharia, Sodepur, Barasat, Madhyamgram, Barrackpore, Shyamnagar, Naihati and Kanchrapara, apart from roads which connects other small towns and localities on the way. The road has interchanges with State Highway 1 and State Highway 2 at different places. An extension of this expressway from 'Kampa More' connects it to National Highway 12 through a 6-kilometer-long,6-lane elevated corridor. Additionally, a 6-lane extradosed cable-stayed bridge named 'Second Ishwar Gupta Setu' is being built on the expressway between Kalyani and Bansberia over the Hooghly River, which will be the 5th bridge over the Hooghly River in the Kolkata metropolitan region.
Cities and towns
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References
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{{National and State Highways in West Bengal}}