Cyclone Tauktae: No damage caused to Coastal Road Project due to storm, says BMC
While heavy rain and gusty winds caused due to cyclonic storm Tauktae that brush passed Mumbai s coastline battered the city with tree falls, wall collapse and waterlogging incidents, BMC claims the under-construction coastal road project did not face any damage. Not a single seawall built for the ambitious coastal road project did not suffer any damage during the storm, the civic officials said.
While the heavy rain and strong winds wreaked destruction on shores across Mumbai and adjoining areas, the coastal project managed to escape it, as work was stopped since Friday. This was a test for us too. As despite such heavy rain, strong and gusty winds the construction is done, especially the seawall did not face any damage during the storm, said a senior BMC official.
Tanishka Sodhi
These days, barricades and bulldozers obscure the view of Mumbaiâs Arabian Sea coastline. Signboards that read âconnecting people and placesâ 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 Indiaâs first undersea tunnel. About 68,000 vehicles are