With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) taking up major concretisation work of all roads in Mumbai, the civic body’s Garden Cell has listed out directives to ensure the city’s tree cover remains unaffected. In a proposal sent to municipal commissioner and state-appointed administrator, Iqbal Singh Chahal, the Garden Cell has sought formal implementation of these […]
Category: Roads
High-speed coastal road corridor: A sea-change in the way Mumbai drives
By the end of this year, the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, a 10.5-km-long high-speed corridor that will connect Marine Drive and Worli will be ready for public use. The sprawling concrete pathway being constructed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is fundamentally going to change how the city travels. PRATIP ACHARYA and SWEETY ADIMULAM report. […]
Road transport, highways sector has maximum number of delayed projects: Govt report
The road transport and highways sector has the maximum number of delayed projects at 402, followed by railways at 115 and the petroleum industry at 86, showed a government report. In the road transport and highways sector, 402 out of 749 projects are delayed. For railways, out of 173 projects, 115 are delayed, while in […]
Atishi inspects 30 infra projects in Delhi, seeks monthly progress reports
Delhi’s Public Works Department (PWD) minister Atishi Friday held a meeting with senior officials to review the ongoing 30 infrastructure projects, including the construction of flyovers and underpasses. The minister directed the officials to set monthly targets for all ongoing flyover projects and complete them within the timeline and submit a monthly progress report to […]
BMC to build T-shaped flyover at Mith Chowky to decongest traffic
In a bid to decongest the Mith Chowky traffic junction, also known as ‘Uncle’s Kitchen’ junction in Malad (West) which is infamous for snarls, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is constructing a ‘T’-shaped flyover at the chokepoint. As the 800-m-long flyover will pass below the elevated Metro 2A line, it will only cater to two-wheelers […]
Ensure all Mumbai skywalks are ‘made ideal’, HC tells BMC, other authorities
The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other authorities to ensure “all existing skywalks in the city are made ideal, for their best possible utility, so as to achieve the purpose for which they are constructed”. The court was hearing a PIL raising concerns over the non-availability of a […]
Repairs complete, Chirag Dilli flyover to open today
Traffic movement is set to ease on the Outer Ring Road as the repair and maintenance work on the Chirag Dilli flyover is completed, and the stretch will be fully operational from Wednesday, said officials. Delhi PWD Minister Atishi said, “Providing relief from traffic jams to the people of Delhi is the Arvind Kejriwal-led government’s […]
Boost for NAINA project as CIDCO floats road tenders
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has floated tenders for building of roads and footpaths for its Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area (NAINA) project. “NAINA is an ambitious project in the urban planning sector of the state. As the project is being implemented through TPS (Town Planning Schemes), CIDCO endeavors for speedy implementation […]
Hatkeshwar bridge: Four AEIPL directors move pre-arrest bail pleas in court
Four directors of Ajay Engi-Infrastructure Private Limited (AEIPL), the company which was awarded the contract to construct Hatkeshwar bridge, moved anticipatory bail pleas at the Ahmedabad city civil and sessions court on Thursday. The directors have been accused by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) of cheating and criminal breach of trust in connection to the […]
How AI will help keep Delhi’s ‘European standard’s roads pothole-free
Soon, the 41 km roads redeveloped along the lines of European standards under the streetscaping projects will be maintained and closely monitored by a high-tech artificial intelligence-modelled system to report in case of any potholes, damaged roads, missing median, cattle invasion, accident or any water/sewer leakages on these revamped stretches, said Public Works Department (PWD) […]
Mumbai: Gokhale Bridge deadline shifted to Diwali this year
The deadline for the completion of the Gopal Krishna Gokhale Bridge in Mumbai’s Andheri has been pushed to November, owing to a delay in the supply of raw materials by the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), said civic officials Wednesday. The Gokhale Bridge will join Andheri East with Andheri West. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation […]
SV Road widening project: HC asks BMC to consider additional compensation for 2 shops in Malad
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to consider paying additional compensation to the owner of two shops in Malad (West) that are to be acquired for widening of the SV Road. The directive came while a division bench of Justice Girish S Kulkarni and Justice Rajesh N Laddha on […]