Coastal road on Arabian Sea: how Maha govt is pushing Mumbai towards disaster

Nihar Gokhale
1 min readOct 24, 2016

Mumbai has moved decisively closer to building a road on the Arabian Sea, along its western coast. Fifty or hundred years from now, how will the city remember this moment?

While the government is selling this project as a solution to the city’s traffic woes, what the project will most likely be is a disaster.

At Rs 11,300 crore, it is way more expensive than any public transport system, including upgrading the existing ones. Yet it will serve only 2% of Mumbai’s population.

Originally published on January 7, 2016. Read the full story:

http://www.catchnews.com/environment-news/coastal-road-on-arabian-sea-how-maha-govt-is-pushing-mumbai-towards-disaster-1451999745.html

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Nihar Gokhale

Journalist and editor in India interested in economy, environment and conflicts.