Tolls abolished for Indian highway

A major highway in India has abolished tolls to end traffic congestion. The eight-lane expressway connecting the capital, Delhi, with the suburb of Gurgaon, has been controversial ever since it opened in 2008. Some 200,000 vehicles take the highway daily. Sometimes they can take up to 20 minutes to clear the toll gates. Efforts made to decongest the traffic by putting up additional collection windows and deploying more people to manage the traffic failed. On Wednesday the Delhi High Court allowed three stakeholders in charge of the expressway, including the private operator and the state-run highway authority, to remove tolls on the 27km (16-mile)-long expressway, according to BBC.