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Santacruz Chembur Link Road

Connectivity between eastern and western suburbs is pathetic is Bombay.

I remember having read somewhere that Santacruz Chembur Link Road was first mooted way back in 1967. I have no proof of this revelation though and one would need to dig into the Metropolitan Development files to corroborate this.

Whether it was first mooted four decades ago or the construction started a decade ago, the truth of the matter is that Santacruz Chembur Link Road remains incomplete adding to the agonies of the Bombay commuter

Traffic from Eastern and North Eastern Bombay headed for the western suburbs travels all the way to Sion and then has to pass the snail paced bottleneck of Dharavi to then join Bandra east. Once commissioned and, God only knows when, would save commuting time from the present 45 to 70 minutes to probably 15 minutes as projected the the authorities.

The trouble is that there seems no one who can crack the whip nor is there someone who has a definite answer on the completion date.

And to think of how much fuel the country would save if we get into expeditious project completion mode.


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