Noida: The drive through Noida's main arterial road will take less than 10 minutes from Wednesday when one of the city's biggest infrastructure projects is opened to traffic — the 6km elevated section of the Master Plan 2 road from Vishwa Bharti School in Sector 28 to the Uflex intersection in Sector 60.The four-lane road will help cut down significantly on travel time during office hours for those turning into Noida from the expressway or Delhi near Film City as well as for NH-24 traffic from Sector 62, commuters from Noida Extension and those from the Noida City Centre side taking the Fortis road. For commuters headed towards South Delhi, the drive from NH-24 to Ashram will speed up significantly when the road opens.The 17km stretch from Uflex to Ashram will now be signal-free and, if traffic is smooth, will take less than half an hour to cover.The elevated road will be officially launched by Uttar Pradesh industrial development minister Satish Mahana on Wednesday at 5pm.Before that, the Noida Authority will start trials on the elevated stretch from Tuesday. A 2.5-km stretch of the road from Uflex to the ISKCON Temple is already operational, having been opened to commuters in October last year.When the entire stretch opens, traffic flow around sectors 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31 and 33 should ease. Due to construction work, motorists have been facing regular snarls along the Master Plan 2 road. Those bottlenecks too will go."We are giving the elevated road finishing touches and will ensure it is ready a day before the official opening," said S C Mishra, project engineer, Noida authority and in-charge of the elevated road project. "On the morning of June 27, we will undertake trial runs along the stretch to ensure all is fine," he added.Suresh Rana, minister of state (independent), sugarcane, sugar mills and industrial development is also likely to accompany Mahana. A public address is scheduled at Cambridge School before the ribbon cutting ceremony, officials said.The project was commissioned in October 2014 when Akhilesh Yadav was in power. Initially, it was scheduled to be completed by October 2016 but was affected by the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) ban on use of hot-mix plants, which was necessary to prepare construction material for the road."We did face a delay, but construction was resumed in full swing after NGT on May 8 temporarily lifted the ban on hot-mix plants," Mishra said.The elevated road has exit and entry ramps at Nithari (Sector 30) and (NTPC Sector 24) to allow traffic from internal roads access it. Nearly one lakh vehicles pass through the Sector 62 area every day. Commuters use the stretch to reach Ghaziabad via NH-24 and parts of East Delhi. Several thousand vehicles also drive towards Noida Extension from Film City via the Uflex route.

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