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Is Mumbai's Coastal Road worth the losses to livelihood and environment?

Tanishka Sodhi These days, barricades and bulldozers obscure the view of Mumbai’s Arabian Sea coastline. Signboards that read “connecting people and places” watch over construction crews that have made good use of the pandemic lockdown to ramp up work on the ambitious Coastal Road project. The 29-km road will link Marine Drive in the south to Kandivali in the north. The anticipated benefit? Reduction in travel time by about 70 percent in the second most congested city in the world. Is the intended benefit worth the estimated cost in public resources, livelihoods, and environmental damage? The project comprises an eight-lane partly elevated road, a 2.31-km main bridge, a 13-km interchange bridge, a sea wall, and India’s first undersea tunnel. About 68,000 vehicles are

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