Next year, Thanekars can be hopeful of less-clogged streets as the work on Ghodbunder bypass road, adjacent to Gaimukh to Balkum creek, is likely to begin. This 200-metre-long and 45-feet-wide road will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs313 crore. It will take care of the heavy vehicle traffic movement that comes from Ahmedabad highway.
Vichare met defence minister Manohar Parikkar and explained the situation. “I explained to him that we will make the road without disturbing the boundary wall of Akbar camp. Parikkar told us that he will give the requisite permission soon,” added Vichare. If this approval comes, it will improve the traffic situation on the stretch to a great extent.
In another development, work for Thane Metro from Kasarvadavli to Wadala is likely to start before the next budgetary session of the legislative assembly. “Earlier, there was a proposal to have an underground Metro. But consultants appointed to study the project suggested that this would push up the cost as well as time,” said MLA Pratap Sarnaik, adding, “So, it has been decided to go for an elevated Metro.”
Earlier, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had said the work on Thane Metro will start by December 2015. But this did not happen and as a mark of protest Sarnaik staged a hunger strike at the winter assembly session in Nagpur.
He demanded that Metro is the need of hour in Thane due to ever-increasing population. “The honorable chief minister promised that the work on Thane Metro will start before next assembly budget,” said Sarnaik.
Source - epaper.dnaindia.com
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