Coastal Road Project: Planners want BMC to move all open spaces towards seaside
Suggesting changes in the existing alignment of the coastal road project, city-based architects and urban planners want the BMC to move all open spaces towards the seaside to make way for a “world class waterfront”.
A group of about 70 architects, urban designers, planners and professors, have on March 2 written to then municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray, to seek changes in alignment to turn the open space into a world class waterfront.
The BMC is constructing a 10.58-km coastal road from Princess Street Flyover in Marine Lines to the Worli end of Bandra-Worli Sea Link Road. For the project, the civic body is reclaiming 111 hectare of the sea on western coast.
