Cranes, dumpers, trucks and other heavy equipment have replaced the sunset view, all the way from Chowpatty beach to Worli. Behind yellow barricades are hundreds of workers beavering away round the clock at several of Mumbai’s iconic spots — Haji Ali, Breach Candy, Napean Sea Road and Marine Lines — to complete an infrastructure project that, at the very least, promises to change the face of the Mumbai coast at its southern tip.
The road, a 10.58-km stretch starting from the Marine Drive promenade to the Worli-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, is part of the larger Mumbai Coastal Road Project that is proposed to link Marine Drive to Kandivali — an ambitious plan to link South Mumbai with North with a toll-free freeway that is expected to ease up traffic in one of the most congested cities in the world.
