Coastal road in Mumbai
- February 21, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Coastal road in Mumbai
Subject: Economy
Context: Mumbai coast is seeing launch of an ambitious coastal road project in the coastal region.
Concept:
- The work is on an infrastructure project on the Mumbai coast — a 10-km stretch of the Coastal Road, which, with its undersea tunnel and road built on reclaimed land.
- It will cut down travel time in one of the most congested cities in the world.
- It starts from the Marine Drive promenade to the Worli-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and is part of the larger Mumbai Coastal Road Project that is proposed to link Marine Drive to Kandivali
- Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is funding the project.
- It will be India’s first undersea road tunnel (road will run a kilometer or so under the sea, through a set of twin tunnels).
- However, the impact the road and its construction will have on marine life and livelihoods of fishing communities along the coast is also need to be watched out for.