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The bypass project was first pitched in 1977. Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the construction of the road project in 2018. The total cost of the project was 1543 crore, and the 45-meter-wide six-lane road was constructed on 85.5 acres of land. [5]
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that are no longer in use as a result of devastating natural disasters ...
Aerial View of The Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit ...
In the 1960s a 2.8-kilometre-long (1.7 mi) road tunnel was built under the pass at 3,120 m (10,240 ft) elevation, bypassing the uppermost part of the pass road. [1] A ski resort is situated on the south slope of the Too Ashuu pass at 2960 m.a.s.l.
Grossglockner High Alpine Road in autumn 1997 Hairpin turn near the summit. When, in 1924, a group of Austrian experts presented a plan for a road over the Hochtor (the high pass), they were ridiculed in a time when in Austria, Germany, and Italy there were only 154,000 private automobiles, 92,000 motorcycles, and 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of long-distance asphalt roads.
The pub was eventually renamed The Snake Pass Inn as the road became more famous. The pub closed in 2019 but people can still stay in self-catering accommodation there.
Chester Pass Road is a 163-kilometre (101 mi) long road that passes through the Stirling Range between Nyabing and Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It passes close to the access road to the base of Bluff Knoll .
Summit of the Priest's Leap pass with a view south to Bantry Bay in Cork Summit of the Priest's Leap pass with a view north to Kerry. Priest's Leap (Gaelic Léim an tSagairt) is a steep and nearly straight single-lane mountain pass between Coomhola Bridge and the village of Bonane east of the more winding road from Bantry to Kenmare in Ireland. [1]