The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be able to open only one side of the Coastal Road route between Marine Lines and Worli in December, as work on the second tunnel is still in the primary stages (With inputs from Prajakta Kasale and Sameer Surve) (Pics/PTI and AFP)
Updated On: 2023-06-19 09:42 AM IST
Compiled by : ronak mastakar
The entire project work, including a promenade and car parking facility, is expected to be ready by June 2025
Earlier on May 30, achieving a major milestone, the Mumbai civic body completed the excavation of a second underground tunnel of the coastal road project at Priyadarshini Park
The BMC in a release, said the “breakthrough” of the second tunnel of the ambitious project, for which the work started nearly 13 months ago, was achieved in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
According to civic officials, tunnel-digging work between Marine Drive near Princess Street flyover in south Mumbai and Priyadarshini Park has fully been completed, while the work on the actual road (stretching more than 10km) is 75 per cent complete
The 10.58 km-long road is being built from Princess Street Flyover to the Worli end of the Bandra Worli Sealink
