It seems the extension work of the Bal Thackeray flyover at Jogeshwari has once again hit a roadblock, which might delay the project further. In February, the BMC had sent a proposal to the MMRDA requesting the agency to take up the entire extension work, as two separate agencies working on the same alignment of the flyover and Metro Line VI would unnecessarily delay the projects. However, according to civic officials, MMRDA has not agreed to take up the entire extension work, and would instead stick to those portions where the two infra projects run on the same pillar.

Sources said that the extension work, which has been pending for over three years, would most likely start by year-end. While the civic body would work on the approach roads to the flyover and some portions where the flyover and the Metro line run parallel to each other, the MMRDA would take up the parts where the two projects run together. Civic sources said that a consultant would be appointed soon to draft the tenders and start work on the flyover extension, which once completed would connect Lokhandwala to Poonam Nagar to Jogeshwari East.