Maharashtra’s Public Works Department Minister Eknath Shinde announced that a four-lane expressway will be built to enable people travel from Mumbai to Goa in 5 hours.
Shinde, addressing the Upper House said that the expressway spanning the 500-km stretch will be built along the lines of Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway.
The proposed expressway will begin at Chirle village in Navi Mumbai and will end at Patradevi village, located on the Maharashtra-Goa border. Currently, it takes anywhere between 12-14 hours by road to Goa through National Highway 66- which passes through Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
