Work will be done at night as the WEH, especially area around the flyover at Kandivli, has traffic issues owing to Metro construction
Traffic moves slowly on the WEH near Thakur Complex due to the Metro construction work. Pic/Satej Shinde
Motorists travelling on the Western Express Highway will not have to slow down while driving on the Thakur Complex flyover in Kandivli even though the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has begun repair work on the extension joints of the flyover, because it is being done at night.
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The traffic situation on the WEH during the morning and evening peak hours is unmanageable, due to the ongoing metro construction work. It was expected that when work on the Thakur Complex flyover begins, the traffic situation will worsen, but in order to prevent it, authorities will carry out work between 11 pm and 6 am.
An MMRDA official said, “We have started repair work on the north-bound stretch of the Thakur Complex flyover. The work of repairing the expansion joints will be done in the night so that motorists will not have to face traffic during peak hours.”
“The work of replacing expansion joints has commenced and will be completed in about 10 days,” said RA Rajeev, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA.
In the last week of January 2016, the expansion joints of the Thakur Complex flyover near Mahindra and Mahindra company were damaged and temporarily repaired.
The 592-metre-long flyover was constructed at a cost of R25 crore. Work on it had commenced on November 24, 2005. It was inaugurated on January 26, 2009, by then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had flown to the flyover in a helicopter, for which traffic movement on WEH had to be stopped.
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