Eastern Peripheral Expressway: All you need to know

Prop Mania, July 8, 2021

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Here is everything you need to know about the Eastern Peripheral Expressway. With an intention to provide swift connectivity to commuters traveling from the eastern side of the National Capital Region (NCR), the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), also known as the Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway, was approved in 2015. Along with the Western Peripheral Expressway (WPE), this 135-km-long expressway completes the largest ring road corridor around the national capital Delhi.

Eastern Peripheral Expressway map and route

Declared as the National Expressway-2, the corridor starts from Sonipat and passes through Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida in UP, and Faridabad in Haryana, before ending at Palwal. It meets the WPE in Sonipat and Palwal.

Eastern Peripheral Expressway exit points

For commuters, there are seven exit points on the EPE. All these exit points are named after the villages such as Baghpat, Duhai, Dasna, Dadri, and Atali-Chasna, leading towards Meerut, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Noida, Greater Noida, and Faridabad.

Eastern Peripheral Expressway: Features and interesting facts

This is one of the first expressways to have a closed tolling system, in which the toll will be collected only on the distance traveled and not on the entire length.
There are facilities for rainwater collection every 500 meters. Around 2.5 lakh trees were planted along the highway, which is watered using a drip irrigation system.
The EPE also has a cycle track of 2.5 meters width on both sides.
To curb the speeding of vehicles, the expressway has an auto challan system. Cameras have been set up at different locations to capture the speed of the vehicles.
The EPE is also installed with solar panels, to provide power to lights along the road. It is also India’s first smart and green highway.
The EPE has around 406 structures, including four major bridges, 46 minor bridges, three flyovers, seven interchanges, 221 underpasses, and eight railway over-bridges (ROBs).
The total cost of construction for the EPE was Rs 11,000 crores.
‘The expressway became fully operational when prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated it, in May 2018.
The EPE has been connected with the Delhi-Meerut Expressway and will soon be linked with the Yamuna Expressway via a planned interchange at an intermediate location.

Eastern Peripheral Expressway: Speed limit

As compared to other expressways, the EPE has a higher speed limit of 120 kmph. Consultations are ongoing, to increase the average speed on multi-lane expressway corridors.

Eastern Peripheral Expressway toll rates

Type of vehicle	Toll rate per km
Car/jeep	Rs 1.384
Light commercial vehicle	Rs 2.237
Truck/bus	Rs 4.687
Heavy construction machinery (three-axle vehicle)	Rs 5.113
Four to six-axle vehicles	Rs 7.350
Oversized vehicles (> seven axles)	Rs 8.948