BKC-Eastern Express Highway Elevated Corridor To Open In July
To decongest crowded roads around the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is planning to complete the elevated link road by July 2019. The corridor will pass through BKC from Vakola at the end of Western Express Highway to Kapadia Nagar near BKC. Here the route will be divided into two. While one will connect to Santa Cruz Chembur Link Road, the other would connect a flyover till Chunnabhatti, which would cut the travel time by 30 minutes. Through this, the congestion at Dharavi and Sion can be avoided by the travellers. The entire route would cut the travel time of the commuters traveling to extended suburbs of Mumbai by 30-40 minutes during rush hours.
According to the current scenario, Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road remains clogged during peak hours. With this elevated corridor, the movement towards western suburbs would smoothen and for commuters on Eastern Express Highway, BKC would become smoother as the MMRDA is planning to remove encroachments' on CST Road as it has become a major bottleneck. The road widening initiative will ease the traffic from SCLR and Kurla CST Road to Vakola, the starting point of the proposed link road.
Apart from this, another link road which has been recently proposed by the MMRDA is the connection between Bandra Worli Sea Link and BKC. This would further lighten up the burden on existing roads and make traveling to business hub easier.
With the rise in corporate offices in this part of the city, the daily vehicular traffic traveling to BKC has risen to 50,000. The entire initiative has been planned in order to decongest the city's biggest business hub where the traffic woes are unavoidable in current road conditions. According to the budget reports, MMRDA has a budget of Rs 171 crore out of which Rs 106 crore will be spent on road and allied improvement and Rs 65 crore on buses to ply on BKC.
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