BMC to spend Rs 1,591 cr to concretise approach roads of two expressways

The EEH and WEH were taken implicit by the civic authorities from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for attraction successful 2022. Earlier successful May this year, the BMC had floated a Rs 146 crore tender for carrying retired pre-monsoon repair works successful the 2 highways.

Civic officials said that the existent tender volition absorption connected repair works that are needed successful the attack roads that link the highways with the large and insignificant roads successful Mumbai. “Several patches of the EEH and WEH are successful a dilapidated authorities and person lived their age. Right now, our absorption is to upgrade the existing infrastructure for which we mean to concretise the attack roads. These roads are filled with potholes, and since the highways are utilized by dense vehicles, concretising is the lone mode up to forestall imperishable harm to the road’s surface,” said an official.
The EEH is 23.55 km successful magnitude portion the WEH is 25.88 km.

These 2 highways person aggregate stretches of attack roads who full magnitude adjacent astir the wide magnitude of the 2 highways. “After the coastal roadworthy becomes operational, we volition get a parallel connectivity with the highways, pursuing which the highways volition beryllium taken up for concretisation successful a phased manner, which is the larger plan. In the meantime, astir 400 km of roads successful Mumbai is being concretised by the civic authorities and wrong adjacent 2 to 4 years, our people is to concretise each the existing interior roads of Mumbai,” the authoritative said.

Mumbai presently has a roadworthy web of 2,050 km of which 1,224 KM is already concretised, portion the remaining roads are being taken up for concretisation successful a phased manner.