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Mumbai: Rs 250-cr elevated road is criminal waste of public money, says experts
Updated On: 08 July, 2015 02:08 PM IST | | Ranjeet Jadhav
<p>Transport experts claim that MMRDA should clear the stretch on the SCLR between WEH and CST Road junction of squatters and illegal structures to resolve peak-hour traffic woes, rather than building a 3-km-long elevated road</p>
A year after the world’s most delayed project, the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR), was thrown open for public on April 18, 2014, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) now plans to construct an elevated road starting from the Western Express Highway (WEH), passing via Hans Bhugra Marg on SCLR and all the way up to Kurla. Construction cost of the 3-km-long road has been pegged at Rs 250 crore.
The existing width of the Hans Bhugra Marg which links WEH and SCLR is over 40 metres
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