Noida-Agra in 90 minutes By December this year, all it would take you to reach Agra from Noida will be just 90 minutes, because the Yamuna Expressway is going to be completed two years earlier than the scheduled date of November 2013. From December, vehicles are expected to zoom on 100-metre wide, six-lane Yamuna Expressway, at a speed of 120 km/hour on the 165-km-long expressway. Agra-bound tourists would no longer have to cope with traffic jams or congested roads. According to chief executive officer of the Yamuna Expressway, Industrial Development Authority, Capt SK Dwivedi, 88 per cent of the work has been completed. The construction of some bridges is in the final stages and the work would be completed by December, 2011. It would enable people to reach Agra via the Noida expressway. The six-lane expressway later could be widened to an eight-lane highway. There would be six interchanges, five toll plazas, seven facilitation centres and 35 underpasses on the expressway. However, the state government had asked the completion of service lanes by September 30, 2010, so that visitors from abroad to the Commonwealth Games could visit the Taj without any hassle. But, it could not be completed on time due to the farmers' agitation against land acquisition in Tappal, Aligarh and Mathura. The expressway will open development opportunities in Greater Noida, Aligarh, Mathura, Mahamaya Nagar and Agra districts, along the entire route of the expressway.