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Mumbai: ‘Systemic urban planning failure’

As Mumbai’s planning agencies race to construct more flyovers and road overbridges (ROBs) to ease chronic traffic congestion, concerns are mounting over whether these projects are truly solving the problem or merely shifting bottlenecks to new areas. As part of the Elevated Chaos series, we highlighted several upcoming flyovers and ROBs across Mumbai, set to open in 2025 and early 2026, that are likely to worsen congestion at key junctions. Read more.