Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two key expressways today, one to cut down on travel time from Meerut to Delhi, the other to help reduce pollution in the national capital. The Rs. 7,500-crore, 14-lane Delhi-Meerut Expressway will cut down the travel time between the two cities to 40 minutes from the current two-and-half-hours. In Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, the Prime Minister he opened the Rs. 11,000-crore Eastern Peripheral Expressway, India's first smart and green highway, that will help around 50,000 vehicles travelling up to Jammu and Kashmir, to skirt Delhi.