NH2, that is Durgapur Express Highway between Durgapur to Kolkata experiences are as follows:
1. Indiscipline driving by Big Trucks. They keep on changing lanes arbitrarily and suddenly blocking others
2. Trucks are parked on one side of the highway throughout the stretch. Blocking a portion of the road
3. On 1st January 2022, the entire stretch of the express highway after Banskopa Toll Plaza and upto Panagarh was completely blocked by many trucks parked in the middle of the road
4. Dankuni Toll Plaza to Kolkata is most of the time blocked by trucks across all lanes. If someone is driving from Durgapur to Kolkata in the evening time, then it can take anything between 2 hours to indefinite number of hours to go a distance of 10 KM from Dankuni Toll Plaza to Bali (entry of Kolkata). This is happening day after days, month after months without any resolution
This is really frustrating, I as a commuter completely uncertain what amount of time it would take to travel from Durgapur to Kolkata, especially in the evening. Sometimes even when returning from Kolkata to Durgapur in the evening, the stretch from Bali to Dankuni is a night mare. Due to indiscriminate driving of trucks, trucks parked by the side of the road and road blocks