The MMRDA are hurriedly wanting to shut down the Prabhadevi Bridge to build their Connector but they have as yet not delivered the fully widened Tilak Bridge which too is under their own production. And why the rush to build the Connector? Is the Atal Setu in huge demand? NO! In fact, it is largely empty. Is the Atal Setu connected to either the Mumbai-Pune Expressway or the Mumbai-Goa Highway? NO! Then why rush into building the Connector. This is sheer madness. And all the ensuing traffic chaos will wreck a havoc on South Central Mumbai. Do folks at the MMRDA not understand what infrastructure to build first before shutting down any other fully-in-use infrastructure?
The Government of Maharashtra has recently built the Coastal Road on the western waterfront. It is being built in phases and is as such starting from Marine Drive and is slated to go all the way up to Virar. It is now thrown open to the general public, in phases again. Parallel to this, the government has simultaneously built the Atal Setu as well, over the straits, connecting mainland India to the island of South Mumbai on the eastern waterfront. The Atal Setu too is thrown open to the general public. And now, these two i.e. the Coastal Road and the Atal Setu are slated to be connected with one another via a planned Connector bridge between Worli on the western end and Sewri on the eastern end. This Connector is going to perpendicularly cut across South Mumbai, over Paral, and is planned to be a double-decker bridge, wherein the existing Prabhadevi Station Bridge (formerly and famously known as the Elphinstone Bridge) will be rebuilt at the lower level, and the stupid Connector over it, on the upper level. I call the Connector stupid for several reasons and one shall know how in the following pages.
This design is faulty because the upper level deck of the Connector does not come with an exit whatsoever anywhere in between Worli and Sewri and that is the grave design fault that I am referring to, the subject matter of this Website. A pictorial depiction as shown hereinbelow clearly shows what I mean.ww
You see, Paral East has several small and large, public/ private hospitals, including a veterinary hospital, but the Connector is not designed with an exit out on to Paral east to let the ambulances rapidly descend with their patients to these hospitals. And because the Coastal Road is going to come all the way down from Virar and traverse east to mainland India, and vice a versa, it must accommodate an exit for the ambulances, because the ambulances will want to reach these hospitals in quick time to save the precious lives of the patients.
सरकार ह्या गधड्या कनेक्टरला जणू परळच्या आणि परळकरांच्या डोक्यावर लादणार आहे आणि ह्यात परळकरांच्या हिताचा यत्किंचितही विचार केलेला दिसत नाही.
This Connector is going to be thrust on the heads of the Paralkars and that too without solving the existing traffic woes of the everyday Paralkar. And that, I am afraid, IS NO DEVELOPMENT. That's development for the select few, the rich that is. And this stark contrast, in terms of the perceived development of the select few rich, was recently remonstrated as no development, by none other than our very own,
Minister of Industry and Supply of India, Shri Piyush Goyal in an interview with the
Brut, as seen on
YouTube.
https://youtu.be/DPaLXe9lF2k?si=g5Zb48RrMs6KuZ4y
This Website is hosted for the benefit of several people, not necessarily restricted to the people of the vicinity of the affected areas of the Connector, but also for the people at large who frequent Mumbai city, or for those who may regularly commute to and fro from across the Mumbai harbour, for work. One will understand how, in greater detail, in the following pages. I am also hosting this site, because if not, then the entire city will have lost out on fixing a grave anomaly in the design of the
Coastal Road-Atal Setu Connector as proposed to be built by the MMRDA (more on this is explained in the following pages).
I hereby am presenting the State with a grand solution thereto. Thank God for that. The best part is that I am not just highlighting the problem, but am simultaneously presenting a solution thereto. The solution follows in the ensuing pages. And the beauty of it all is that in the proposed solution to the problem, I am able to present the State with a master plan which will also solve the existing traffic woes of the everyday Paralkars.
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