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  • Mumbai Coastal Road To Open Daily, Heavy Vehicles Banned | Mobility News

    Mumbai Coastal Road: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday announced that the Mumbai Coastal Road will be open for traffic all days of the week starting September 21. Earlier, the road linking Marine Lines and Worli was operational from 7 am to midnight only on weekdays. The BMC, in a release, informed that 92 per cent of the work on the Dharmaveer Swarajyarakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Mumbai Coastal Road has been completed.

    The road connects the Shamaldas Gandhi Marg (Princess Street) flyover to the Worli end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. The construction of the ambitious Rs 13,983 crore project began on October 13, 2018. In a separate notification, the traffic wing of the Mumbai police has banned heavy vehicles from plying on the coastal road.

    The police have also prohibited vehicles from stopping and people from alighting, taking pictures and shooting videos on this route, it said. Heavy vehicles, such as trailers, mixers, tractors, and goods vehicles (excluding BEST, state transport buses, and passenger-carrying vehicles) are prohibited, the notification stated.

    Besides this, two-wheelers, bicycles, two-wheelers with sidecars, three-wheelers, animal-driven carts, and pedestrians will also not be on this road, it said. According to the order, the speed limit is 80 km on a straight stretch, 60 km in the tunnel, 40 km at turnings, and 30 km at the merging point of the Coastal Road and sea link.

    During the Ganpati festival earlier this month, the civic body kept the road open 24/7 from September 7 to September 17. As per the BMC’s release, the southbound arm of the Coastal Road from Bindumadhav Thackeray Chowk, Rajni Patel Chowk (Lotus Junction), and Ambedkar Udyan to Marine Drive, and the northbound route to the Sea Link will remain open for vehicular movement.

    The BMC also urged commuters to follow traffic rules, and speed limits, and exercise caution while driving to avoid accidents.

  • This Road Reduces 1 Hr Distance To 8 Mins! Gets Thumbs Up From Commuters | Mobility News

    Mumbai Coastal Road Phase 2: Excited Mumbaikars gave a broad smile and a big ‘thumbs up’ as the second phase of the Mumbai Coastal Road (MCR) was thrown open for motorists – a day after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde inaugurated it with a drive in a 94-year-old vintage Rolls Royce beauty.

    Time Saving

    Scores of vehicles were seen entering the south-north arm of the MCR at Marine Lines. The motorists were pleasantly surprised to complete the commute till Haji Ali junction in barely 8 minutes flat – a far cry from the agonising nearly one hour it took till yesterday.

    Many motorists raved about the MCR – officially a mouthful, as ‘Dharmveer Swarajrakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Mumbai Coastal Road’ – as their vehicles sped through the new thoroughfare including a tunnel running under the Malabar Hill and emerging at the new interchange at Haji Ali junction, along the Arabian Sea shore.

    Next Plan

    The remaining part of the project running up to Bandra Worli Sea Link is expected to be completed in a month or so and the entire phase will be fully ready by October affording Mumbaikars huge relief by saving time, fuel, pollution, and other benefits.

    A global marketing consultant Pradeep Menon decided to go on a ‘joy-ride’ from his Powai home, driving first to Marine Lines (north-south), reversing at Churchgate to enter the newly-inaugurated (south-north) stretch and coming out at Haji Ali.

    Thumbs Up From Commuters

    “This was unbelievable… I could complete the stretch in barely 20 minutes both ways, plus it is toll-free and on par with similar projects the world over,” gushed an awed Menon. Several other thrilled motorists spoke to the media lavishing praises on the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and state government for giving a long overdue and huge infrastructure project to the country’s commercial capital, and how it would even benefit future generations.

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde inaugurated the first phase, roughly 10.5 km long, the north-south arm from Worli to Marine Lines, along with the twin tunnels, which proved to be immensely popular with motorists. 

    The Chief Minister said that the new stretch has been equipped with all the modern amenities and will be a boon as it shall decongest traffic to and from south Mumbai to the northern parts of the city.

    The work to link MCR with the BWSL bridge at Worli is also nearing completion and over the next few years, the coastal road will be constructed up to Borivali in northwest Mumbai, with multiple interchanges, big and small bridges, tunnels, etc.