Mumbai is among the densest cities in the world, accounting for about 21,000 people per square kilometre.With the increase in population, the residential and commercial clusters diversified; penetrating deep into the suburbs with lanes, by-lanes, streets, nullahs, hills, forts, concrete structures, slums, water bodies, railway lines, bus routes, electricity cables, television cables, gutters, water lines, greenery and much more snuggling with each other – either above or below the ground.
Now MCGM has planned many flyovers on the congested junctions where movements create a conflict and are planning the same for east-west connectivity too.
The biggest hindrance in MMRDA’s planning has been its working in isolation for years. Whatever the claims, it did not include the traffic police in its plans till about two or three years ago. As a result, while its infrastructure projects were planned well, the traffic management went haywire as the thought was not given to the landing and movement of vehicles. With quite a few jolts, MMRDA and MCGM seem to have woken up to the need of taking other enforcement agencies along with them in the planning stage itself. Promises are many. Work has also begun. Delivery is awaited. Till then, well, till then, be patient. That’s all.
