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{{Short description| Roads, avenues and streets in Kolkata}}
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[[Kolkata]] ([[Kolkata Metropolitan Area|greater]]) is home to the second largest road network in India, only after [[New Delhi]]. As of 2022, total road network in the city's [[Kolkata metropolitan area|metropolitan area]] is 4018 km<ref>https://www.statista.com/statistics/1075128/india-road-length-in-metropolitan-cities/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20the%20Indian%20capital,just%20over%20four%20thousand%20kilometers.</ref> while the city proper has road network of 1850 km.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/among-metros-kol-has-highest-car-density-with-2448-per-km/articleshow/102483515.cms|title=Among metros, Kolkata has highest car density with 2,448 per km|date=7 August 2023|via=The Economic Times - The Times of India}}</ref> The following is a list of major roads, streets and avenues in the [[Kolkata]] ([[Kolkata Metropolitan Area|greater]]).

[[File:Red Road - Kolkata 2013-04-10 7739.JPG|thumb|Red Road, major road in Central Kolkata]]
[[File:AJC Bose Road - Kolkata 20170516175909.jpg|thumb|AJC Bose Road, major east-west road of Kolkata]]
[[File:Major Arterial Road - Rajarhat 7499.JPG|thumb|Biswa Bangla Sarani, one of the busiest road in Kolkata metropolitan area]]

==Major North-South roads in Kolkata city==
This list covers major North-South roads in the [[Kolkata]] city proper as well as in [[Kolkata Metropolitan Area]].

{| class="wikitable"
! Road/ avenue name
! Part of
! Endpoints
! Laning
! Length (km)
! Region
! Ref(s)

|-
|[[Eastern metropolitan bypass]]
| [[File:WB SH3-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 3|SH 3]]]]
|'''North end''': [[Ultadanga]] (becomes [[VIP Road, Kolkata|VIP Road]]) '''South end''': {{unbulleted list|[[Garia]] (Kolkata city)|[[Baruipur]] ([[Kolkata metropolitan area|greater Kolkata]])}}
| 6-8 laned from [[Ultadanga]] to Kamalgachi 4 laned from Kamalgachi to [[Baruipur]]
|32
|Kolkata city and [[Kolkata metropolitan area|greater]]
|
|-
| [[Chittaranjan Avenue]]/ Central Avenue
|
| '''North end''': [[Sovabazar]] (becomes Jatindra Mahan Avenue) '''South end''': [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]] (becomes [[Chowringhee Road]])
| 6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Chowringhee Road]]
|
| '''North end''': [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]] (becomes [[Chittaranjan Avenue]]) '''South end''': [[Bhowanipore|Bhawanipur]] (becomes Ashutosh Mukherjee Road)
|6-8 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|Ashutosh Mukherjee Road and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road
|
| '''North end''': [[Bhowanipore|Bhawanipur]] (becomes [[Chowringhee Road]]) '''South end''': [[Tollygunge]] (becomes Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Sarani)
|4-6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Sarani
|
| '''North end''': [[Tollygunge]] (becomes Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road) '''South end''': Haridevpur
|6-8 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| [[AJC Bose Road & APC Road]]
| [[File:WB SH1-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 1|SH 1]]]]
|'''North end''': [[Ballygunge]] '''South end''': [[Jadavpur]]
| 6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| [[Gariahat Road]]
|[[File:WB SH1-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 1|SH 1]]]]
|'''North end''': [[Jadavpur]] '''South end''': South Kolkata
|4-6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| Raja SC Mullick Road
|[[File:WB SH1-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 1|SH 1]]]]
|'''North end''': [[Jadavpur]] '''South end''': [[Garia]]
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Jessore Road]]
|
|'''North end''': {{unbulleted list| [[Belgachia]] (Kolkata city proper)| [[Barasat]] ([[Kolkata metropolitan area|Greater Kolkata]])}} '''South end''': [[Shyambazar]]
| 2-4 laned
|
|Kolkata city and [[Kolkata metropolitan area|greater]]
|
|-
| [[Strand Road, Kolkata|Strand Road]]
|
| '''North end''':[[Bagbazar]] '''South end''': [[Watgunge|Watgunge]]
| 2-4 laned upto [[Babughat]] and then 6 laned
|
| Kolkata city
|
|-
| [[Red Road (Kolkata)|Red Road]]
|
|'''North end''': [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]] '''South end''': [[Watgunge|Watgunge]](becomes Khidirpur Road)
| 6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| Khidirpur Road
|
|'''North end''': [[Watgunge|Watgunge]](becomes Red Road) '''South end''': [[Khidirpur]]
| 4 laned
|
| Kolkata city
|
|-
| Diamond Harbour Road
| [[File:NH12-IN.svg|30px|thumb|[[National Highway 12 (India)|NH 12]]]]
|'''North end''': Khidirpur (Merges with Khidirpur road) '''South end''': {{unbulleted list| [[Joka, Kolkata|Joka]] (Kolkata city proper)| [[Diamond Harbour]] ([[Kolkata metropolitan area|Greater Kolkata]])}}
| 4-6 laned
|
|
|Kolkata city and [[Kolkata metropolitan area|greater]]

|-
|[[Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road]]
|[[File:WB SH1-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 1|SH 1]]]]
|'''North end''': [[Tollygunge]] (becomes Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Sarani) '''South end''': {{unbulleted list| [[Garia]] (Kolkata city proper)| [[Baruipur]] ([[Kolkata metropolitan area|Greater Kolkata]])}}
| 2 laned
|
| Kolkata city
|Kolkata city and [[Kolkata metropolitan area|greater]]

|-
| [[Sarat Bose Road]]
|
| '''North end''':[[Minto Park]] '''South end''': [[Lake Gardens]]
| 4 laned
| 3.5
| Kolkata city
|
|}

==Major East-West roads in Kolkata city==
{| class="wikitable"
! Road/ avenue name
! Part of
! Endpoints
! Laning
! Length (km)
! Region
! Ref(s)

|-
||[[AJC Bose Road & APC Road|AJC Bose Road]]
|
|'''East end''': [[Hastings, Kolkata|Hastings]] '''West end''': [[Park Circus]]
| 4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| JBS Haldane Avenue
|
|'''East end''': [[Park Circus]] '''West end''': [[Dhapa, India|Dhapa]]
|6 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Rashbehari Avenue]]
|
|'''East end''': Alipore(Chetla) '''West end''': Ruby
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Prince Anwar Shah Road]] and Kalikapur Road extension
|
|'''East end''': [[Tollygunge]] '''West end''': Kalikapur
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Vivekananda Road]]
|
|'''East end''': [[Girish Park]] '''West end''': Manicktala
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| Maniktala Main Road
|
|'''East end''': Maniktala '''West end''': Kakurgachi
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| Beleghata Main Road
|
|'''East end''': [[Sealdah]] '''West end''': Beleghata
|2 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
| [[Taratala Road]]
|
|'''East end''': [[Garden Reach]] '''West end''': [[Taratala]] Xing
|2-4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Mahatma Gandhi Road (Kolkata)|MG Road]]
|
|'''East end''': [[Burrabazar]] '''West end''': [[Sealdah]]
|4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|-
|[[Southern Avenue, Kolkata|Southern Avenue]]
|
|'''East end''': Rashbehari '''West end''': Golpark
| 4 laned
|
|Kolkata city
|
|}

==Branch roads, minor roads and connectors in Kolkata city==
* [[Aurobindo Sarani]]: connects [[Ultadanga]] with [[Shobhabazar]]
* [[Raja Nabakrishna Street]]
* [[Bidhan Sarani]]: connects [[Shyambazar]] and [[College Street (Kolkata)|College Street]], runs parallel to [[Chittaranjan Avenue]]
* [[Amherst Street (Kolkata)|Amherst Street]]: connects [[Shyambazar]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi Road|MG Road]], runs parallel to [[Chittaranjan Avenue]]
* [[College Street (Kolkata)|College Street]]
* [[Bepin Behari Ganguly Street]]
* [[Netaji Subhas Road|Netaji Subhash Road]]
* [[Hare Street]]
* [[Picnic Garden|Picnic Garden Road]]
* [[Sudder Street]]
* [[Camac Street]]
* [[Mirza Ghalib Street]]
* [[Shakespeare Sarani]]
* [[Gobinda Chandra Khatik Road]]
* [[Pulin Khatik Road]]
* [[Ballygunge Circular Road]]
* [[Gurusaday Dutt Road]]

==Notable streets and lanes in Kolkata city==
*Bentick Street
* Dacres Lane
* Ezra Street
* Ho Chi Minh Sarani
* Lovelock Street
* [[Rabindra Sarani]]
* [[Raja Nabakrishna Street]]
* [[Zakaria Street]]

==Major roads in Kolkata metropolitan area==
{| class="wikitable"
! Road/ avenue name
! Part of
! Route
! Laning
! Length (km)
! Ref(s)

|-
|[[Biswa Bangla Sarani]]
|
| Haldiram (merges with [[VIP Road, Kolkata|VIP Road]]) to [[Garia]]
| 6 laned
|33
|
|-
|[[Kalyani Expressway]]
|
| Nimta to [[Kalyani, West Bengal|Kalyani]]
|6 laned
|44
|
|-
|[[Kona Expressway, NH12|Kona Expressway]]
| [[File:NH12-IN.svg|30px|thumb|[[National Highway 12 (India)|NH12]]]]
| [[Vidyasagar Setu]] to Nibra through [[Santragachi]]
|4 laned
| 7.3
|
|-
|[[Belghoria Expressway]]
| [[File:Tabliczka AH1.svg|30px|thumb|[[AH1]]]] [[File:NH12-IN.svg|30px|thumb|[[National Highway 12 (India)|NH12]]]]
| [[Dakshineswar]] to Rajchandrapur
|4 laned
|16
|
|-
| [[Barrackpore Trunk Road]]
| [[File:WB SH1-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 1 (West Bengal)|SH1]]]] [[File:WB SH2-IND.png|30px|thumb|[[State Highway 2 (West Bengal)|SH2]]]]
| [[Dakshineswar]] to [[Barrackpore]]
| 6 laned
| 18
|
|-
| Budge Budge Trunk Road
|
| [[Taratala]] to [[Budge Budge]]
| 4 laned from [[Taratala]] to [[Batanagar]] 2 laned from [[Batanagar]] to [[Budge Budge]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.millenniumpost.in/bengal/nabanna-asks-pwd-to-expedite-repair-of-budge-budge-trunk-rd-536475|title=Nabanna asks PWD to expedite repair of Budge Budge Trunk Rd|first=Team|last=MP|date=13 October 2023|website=www.millenniumpost.in}}</ref>
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Roads in Kolkata|*]]
[[Category:Lists of roads in India|Kolkata]]
[[Category:Kolkata-related lists|Roads]]

List of roads in Kolkata - Revision history

BrodieAlfonso45 at 19:40, 25 February 2026