The state has a large network of multimodal transportation system:
Airways: The state has four major airports and 23 airstrips. Cities that have nationally well connected. Domestic airports are Lucknow,Agra, Kanpur, Allahabad and Varanasi.Bareilly's Trishul Air-base will soon serve also as a domestic airport.
Railways: Almost all the major as well as smaller cities of the state are linked through railways. It has largest railway network in the country; with a total length of 8,546 km (as on 2006) and the sixth largest railway density.
Roadways: The state has largest road network in the country, after Maharashtra. It boasts of 31 National Highways (NH), with a total length of 4,942 km (8.5% of total NH length in India). Approx. each and every city is connected to State highways, most important of them are SH33, SH29 and SH51. Budaun is the key city of these highways. It has seventh highest road density in India, (1,027 km per 1000 km,2 as on 2002 ) and largest surfaced urban road network in the country (50,721 km, as on 2002). Cities of Kanpur, Lucknow, Bareilly, Allahabad, Varanasi, Jhansi, Gorakhpur, Agra and Ghazipur are connected to a number of National Highways. With an existing expressway between Lucknow and Kanpur, new expressways are coming up between Agra and Noida and between Noida and Ballia ( through Budaun). The State Government’s road transport company Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) serves nationalized routes in the state for intrastate and interstate transport. The State also set up the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority with the task of developing 7 new expressways.
Waterways: A long stretch of the river Ganges – from Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) to Haldia (West Bengal) – has been declared as National Waterway (NW)-I and 600 km of the total NW-I lies in Uttar Pradesh.
Although, the state has a large and diversified transportation network, its condition and functioning need substantial improvement.
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