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New Expressway Near Mumbai to Cut Travel Time from Latur to Mumbai to Just 5 Hours
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News18•15-10-2026, 20:29
New Expressway Near Mumbai to Cut Travel Time from Latur to Mumbai to Just 5 Hours
- •A new six-lane expressway is being built from Kalyan near Mumbai to Latur, reducing the travel time from 11 hours to just 5 hours.
- •The Maharashtra government has prepared the Detailed Project Report for this expressway and approved its final alignment.
- •The expressway route will pass through districts including Thane, Pune, Ahilyanagar, Beed, Dharashiv, and Latur.
- •It will connect to five major highways including the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway and the Nagpur-Goa Shaktipeeth Highway.
Key Questions Answered
The new Kalyan-Latur Expressway will reduce travel time between Mumbai and Latur from 10 to 11 hours down to approximately 5 hours.
The expressway will connect to five major routes, including the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Nagpur-Goa Shaktipeeth Highway, Surat-Chennai Economic Corridor, Virar-Alibaug Multimodal Corridor, and Pune-Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Highway.
The greenfield expressway will be approximately 450 kilometers long, featuring six lanes, an 8-kilometer tunnel near Malshej Ghat, and 17 total interchanges.
