The Yamuna Expressway will get bus shelters on both sides at the 36th kilometre near Greater Noida, allowing buses to leave the high-speed corridor through ramps and pick up or drop off passengers at designated facilities instead of stopping on the carriageway.
The shelters are being planned for passengers from Jewar and nearby villages, who currently travel to the expressway to board buses. According to a report by Navbharat Times – Noida, the facilities will be built below the expressway near the Jewar-Kishorepur road. Ramps will connect the shelters with the expressway in both directions.
Buses travelling from Greater Noida towards Agra will use one ramp to move down from the expressway, stop at the shelter to allow passengers to board or alight, and then return to the main carriageway through another ramp. A similar arrangement will be created for buses travelling from Agra towards Greater Noida.
The intervention follows concerns over the current practice of bus drivers stopping directly on the expressway. Residents of Jewar and surrounding villages presently reach the expressway to catch buses, while drivers reportedly stop in the middle of the high-speed road to pick up and drop off passengers. This places waiting passengers and roadside activity close to fast-moving traffic, creating a continuing accident risk.
Local residents had sought a safer boarding arrangement. Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh also advocated the construction of a passenger facility before the Yamuna Authority. The initial option of creating bus stops directly on the expressway was not taken forward because of safety concerns. The under-expressway design was subsequently considered as an alternative that could separate passenger movement from the main traffic stream.
Rajendra Bhati, general manager for projects at the Yamuna Authority, said the location for the shelters had been identified near the Jewar-Kishorpur route and that construction would begin soon. The authority has not provided the project cost, shelter capacity or a specific completion date in the information available in the report.
The arrangement will also require coordination beyond construction. The transport department is expected to ensure that buses using the Yamuna Expressway stop only at the designated shelters to board and drop off passengers. That enforcement step will determine whether the new facilities replace unsafe roadside stops or operate alongside them.
The planned shelters are intended to provide a formal passenger access point on a corridor where expressway traffic and local public transport currently intersect without a dedicated stop. The next stated milestone is the start of construction at the identified location, followed by transport-department measures to direct buses to the new facilities.
