Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, flanked by Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, inaugurated the north-bound arm of the Dharamveer Swaraj Rakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Mumbai Coastal Street on Monday.
At present, the south-bound arm is partially open, catering to motorists travelling from Worli and Haji Ali in direction of Marine Drive. The north-bound arm will permit vehicular motion between Marine Drive and Haji Ali.
Shinde, whereas interacting with reporters, mentioned the south-bound stretch will grow to be totally operational by October this yr.
“At this time, now we have inaugurated the north-bound arm of the Coastal Street Undertaking in a phased method. At present, 6.25km of this stretch will likely be operational and the complete stretch will likely be made purposeful by October. State-of-the-art know-how has been used for setting up this undertaking and the 2 tunnels. This street will deliver down the journey time to lower than eight minutes which normally takes atleast 50 minutes throughout peak hour,” mentioned the Chief Minister.
Whereas no inaugural ceremony was held on Monday, Shinde, together with Fadnavis and Pawar, zipped by way of the coastal street in a classic automobile on Monday afternoon. The CM and Deputy CMs began their drive from Marine Drive, travelling by way of the undersea tunnels and exiting at Breach Sweet. In the course of the drive, Shinde stopped and inspected the spot the place a seepage within the south-bound aspect came about final month.
Following this, civic authorities allowed northbound vehicular motion from 4pm on Monday.
The brand new northbound arm will likely be operational for six.25km and supply motorists a seamless connectivity between Marine Drive and Haji Ali. The gap will likely be coated inside 5 to seven minutes. By July, the BMC is eyeing to increase the northbound finish until Worli, from the place the south certain automobiles enter the coastal street presently.
At present, motorists will have the ability to enter the northbound aspect of coastal street from the Marine Drive, the place they may first enter the 2km-long undersea tunnel that extends until Priyadarshini Park (PDP). Popping out from the tunnel, motorists can exit the street by switching in direction of Breach Sweet or Bhulabhai Desai street by way of the vehicular interchange at Amarsons Backyard.
Motorists travelling in direction of Haji Ali could proceed on the street and change to the mainland from the vehicular interchange at Haji Ali site visitors junction. From there, individuals can journey in direction of Mahalaxmi, Worli, or the Bandra Worli Sea Hyperlink (BWSL) by way of the standard Khan Abdul Khan Gaffer street.
For the reason that work of linking the coastal street with the BWSL is underway, motorists are but to get direct connectivity and have to exit the hall and take the ocean hyperlink from the standard route.
“Your complete southbound arm will grow to be operational by July finish. Which implies automobiles travelling in direction of south Mumbai from Bandra Worli Sea Hyperlink (BWSL) can simply enter the coastal street by utilizing the bow-string bridge that now we have launched. The 2 girders of the bridges have been launched, and ending works are underway,” mentioned an official.
The official added the north-bound arm will grow to be operational until BWSL by October and for the reason that south certain girder was launched first, it is going to be opened early.
Not like the southbound arm which is at present operational, the northern aspect will present motorists an unhindered view of the Arabian Sea. There will even be pedestrian walkways and sitting areas adjoining the promenade on the sea-side. Nonetheless, these works are at present underway and will likely be totally accomplished by finish of this yr.
Officers additionally mentioned the three proposed parking heaps are additionally being constructed and can be prepared by subsequent yr.
In response to civic officers, the northbound arm will likely be operational just for a 6.25km whereas the remaining 4km will likely be opened when the complete part is prepared.
In the meantime, the southbound stretch is operational for a 8km stretch between Bindoo Madhav Thackeray Chowk in Worli and Marine Drive in south Mumbai.
The coastal street will likely be operational solely between 7am and 11pm on weekdays. Civic officers mentioned at present, 90% of the whole civil works have been accomplished on the street and the remaining 10% work will likely be carried out at night time or in the course of the weekends when there will likely be no automobiles.
Constructed at a value of Rs 13,000 crore, the ten.58km-long coastal street is the primary package deal of a excessive pace hall that can prolong until Dahisar within the western suburbs.
Within the subsequent part, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) will assemble the coastal street that can join Versova with Dahisar within the western suburbs and will likely be 20.75km lengthy.
The entire undertaking is being divided into six totally different packages. Package deal A will cowl 4.5km between Versova and Bangur Nagar (Goregaon), package deal B will cowl 1.66km between Bangur Nagar and Mindspace (Malad).
Packages C and D contains north and south certain carriageway that will likely be created between Mindspace and Charkop (Kandivali). Every of those packages can be 3.66km every.
Package deal E, that will likely be 3.78km lengthy, will join Charkop with Gorai and the ultimate package deal F will likely be 3.69km lengthy and can join Gorai with Dahisar.
The following part of the undertaking will value Rs 16,621 crore. In December, the BMC issued work orders to 6 totally different corporations for going forward with the work. The civic physique has arrange a six years’ deadline to finish the undertaking.