Lucknow: Car owners traveling between Meerut and Prayagraj or vice versa via the newly inaugurated Ganga Expressway will have to pay a toll of Rs 1,800 for a one-way journey. The Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority on Wednesday announced toll for motor vehicles soon after the expressway was opened to the public. The toll for two-wheelers, three-wheelers and tractors will be Rs 905, while mini buses and commercial vehicles will have to pay Rs 2,840 for a one-way journey.

Buses and trucks, heavy construction machinery and earth-moving vehicles will be charged Rs 5,720 and Rs 8,760 respectively, while vehicles with seven or more axles (heavy haulers, trailers, heavy cranes or earth movers) will have to pay the highest user charges. Rs 11,265 for single journey. Passengers returning within 24 hours via the expressway will have to pay 80% of the actual round-trip charge (a car owner will be asked to pay around Rs 2,880 instead of Rs 3,600, and a two-wheeler rider will have to pay Rs 1,448 instead of Rs 1,810 for the return journey).

Similar tariff will be applicable on other categories of motor vehicles also. The six-lane Ganga E-way, built under the PPP model, will connect 12 districts of Western, Central and Eastern UP.