Mahaꦅrashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday inaugurated two e🍒levated road corridors in Mumbai.
They will reduce traffic congestion in Mumbai suburbs, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said in a🐲 release.
A flyover from Mankhurd to Chhedanagar Junction towards Thane on Eastern Express Highway and an elevated corridor from Ka⛦padia Nagar to Vakola Junction as part of the Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR) extension project were opened for traffic after the inauguration.
According to MMRDA, the executing agency, the fly෴over at Chhedanagar junction is 1.23 km long and was built atᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ a cost of Rs 86 crore.
It w꧅ill allow one to travel from Navi Mumbai towards Thane without any traffic light halt.
The junction at Ghatkopar in eastern suburbs used to witness heavy traffic after𓄧 the completion ꦡof SCLR and Eastern Freeway and hence, a total of three flyovers and one subway are being constructed as part of this project.
The flyover connecting the SCLR has already been opened for traffic.
The 3.03 km long elevated corridor of SCLR extension Pꦛhase-I will decongest traffic in Kurla and BKC a🐲rea, the MMRDA said.
"MMRDA is aggressively completing and launching all the projects to provide world-class infrastructure to the🐭 citizens of Mumbai metropolitan Region," said SVR Srinivas, metropolitan c𒉰ommissioner of MMRDA.
