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Pasang Lhamu Highway
Pasang Lhamu Highway
राष्ट्रिय राजमार्ग १८
National Highway 18
	NH18 in red
	On the way to Dhunche, Pasang Lhamu Highway
Route information
	Maintained by MoPIT (Department of Roads)
Length	65 km (40 mi)
History	F021
Major junctions
North end	Syaphrubesi
	Bidur, Betrawati
South end	Kathmandu
Location
Country	Nepal
Provinces	Bagmati Province
Districts	Kathmandu District, Nuwakot District, Rasuwa District
Highway system
	Roads in Nepal;

Pasang Lhamu Highway (National Highway 18, NH18) (Nepali: पासाङ ल्हामु राजमार्ग) is a 65 kilometres (40 mi) National Highway of Nepal located in the Bagmati Province^[1]^[2] it can be considered an alternative route of Trishuli Corridor (NH42) in Rasuwa District.^[3]

Details

The highway passes through three districts of Bagmati Province; Kathmandu District, Nuwakot District and Rasuwa District. The highway starts near Machhapokhari in Balaju (Kathmandu) bisecting from Kathmandu ring road (NH39) and proceeds to Thulo Khola (Kathmandu-Nuwakot border) via Nagarjun. The highway then Intersects into NH42 at Pipaltar (Bidur Municipality) passing through Kakani Rural Municipality and Belkotgadhi Municipality. The highway bisects from NH42 in Uttargaya Rural Municipality in Rasuwa District near Betrawati (Nuwakot-Rasuwa border). The highway runs parallel to Trishuli River and Trishuli Corridor (NH42) making fifteen to twenty kilometres of distance. The highway passes through Khasra in Kalika Rural Municipality and Dhunche of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality. The highway terminates in Syaphrubesi merging with NH42.^{[citation needed]}

Feeder road F021 was upgraded to NH18.^[4]

^ "Statics of National Highway 2020_21" (PDF). Nepal in data. Department of Roads (Nepal). 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
^ "Statics of Strategic Road Network". Department of Roads (Nepal). 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
^ "Pasang Lhamu Highway". Nepal News. 18 Sep 2022. Retrieved 4 Jul 2024.
^ "SRN-2017-18 (Bagmati Province)". Department of Roads. 2018. Retrieved 4 Jul 2024.