The much-touted Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) has presented valuable observations to civic authorities but it has also posed a question to them: how to raise money for it. This is because according to the plan, the BMC should invest Rs 7,940 crore until 2019 and another Rs 38,000 crore until 2024 for infrastructure development. This, while the civic body’s coffers are facing a challenge called the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill.

The Suman Nagar flyover at Chembur. A transport expert said the CMP calls for creation of vertical road space by means of elevated roads and flyovers. File Picture