Noida, Feb. 15 -- To ensure smooth traffic movement near the upcoming Noida international airport that in Jewar, the Guatam Budh Nagar police has urged the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) to widen roads in their area.

The airport, set to start commercial operations this April, will be developed in two phases with the first phases having two runways, and the second five runways.

In the first phase, the airport will have an annual capacity to handle nearly 70 million passengers, which will rise to 225 million passengers in the second phase.

Keeping these numbers in mind, police said traffic pressure will increase on the roads connecting to the airport after the completion of passenger and cargo terminals.

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