Mumbai
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will prepare detailed project report for an elevated eastwest corridor that will link P D'Mello Road, near the Eastern Freeway , to Girgaum Chowpatty.
The 4km link is proposed over Sardar Vallabhai Patel (SVP) Road and will cross the JJ flyover. It is expected to reduce travel time from around 40 minutes to 10 minutes via Fort and Marine Drive.
The proposed link will provide integration with the coastal road, that is being planned between Kandivli and Nariman Point.
An MMRDA official said, “We will appoint an agency to prepare the report in two months. The agency may take six months to prepare the report.“ The estimated cost of the project is likely to be less than Rs 300 crore for the 2+2 lane road.
The official said, “It will be a challenging project due to paucity of space on the narrow stretch of SVP Road.The agency will have to identify hurdles and challenges for execution of the project in this part of the city , where land acquisition is an expensive and tedious process. Besides, there will be a compli cated maze of utilities from the British era.“
Also, work will have to be carried out above Central Railway and Western Railway tracks. He said there were also environmental hurdles too as the western arm of the flyover will emerge very close to Girgaum, where coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) regulations are in place.
MMRDA has already formalized plans for another east-west connector in south Mumbai between Sewri-Worli. The project will begin at Narayan Hardikar Marg in Worli and meet the planned Mumbai Trans Harbour Link at its Sewri interchange, near Sewri railway station.
He said, “The report will help provide us the estimated costs, challenges and tentative time required to execute the project.“
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