Many who traverse the southbound lane of the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) — especially the patch near the Chedda Nagar exit — are familiar with how congested the spot gets during peak evening hours. The issue has arisen especially after the Mumbai Traffic Police, starting June 18, initiated a reverse lane protocol at the Nehru Nagar Bridge Chunabhatti to Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) connector, from 8 am to 10:30 am, which was also followed in the evenings to ease traffic.

Bottleneck created

This reverse lane practice is not the first in the city, and is seen every evening at the Goregaon patch of the Western Express Highway, where the initiative has worked smoothly. However, commuters using the EEH patch near the Chedda Nagar exit have said in recent weeks that though the reverse lane practice is helping with the traffic movement on the bridge, the exit has become a bottleneck, where commuters sit idle in their vehicles.