The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has commenced work on a new U-turn flyover at the BKC connector along the Eastern Express Highway as part of its access-control road project aimed at reducing congestion on both the Eastern and Western Express Highway corridors. The initiative is designed to streamline traffic flow between Dadar, Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) and Wadala by separating traffic levels through grade separation mechanisms such as tunnels and flyovers.
First proposed in 2023, the project sought to ease signal wait times at heavily congested junctions by creating multi-level carriageways. The original blueprint included tunnels at nine junctions, but the scope was later revised to four locations. In January 2025, plans for an underpass at Hanuman Road near the airport were scrapped following space constraints flagged by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), reducing the project footprint to three junctions.
Currently, the BMC will implement works at three points: a U-turn bridge at the BKC connector on the Eastern Express Highway; an underpass at Milan Subway along the Western Express Highway; and another underpass near the Sudhir Phadke flyover in Dahisar on the Western Express Highway.
Construction activity has begun at the BKC connector site. Of the 170 piles planned, 120 have been completed, while pile caps have been installed at 9 of 79 locations. Work on 5 out of 79 piers has also been finalised. The flyover is slated for completion by March 2027.
“We have already started construction work on the BKC connector along the Eastern Express Highway. The work on WEH is yet to commence owing to the significant congestion along the lane, where construction work may hamper commuters. However, we have already received permission to start work on the subway near the Sudhir Phadke flyover in Dahisar in September 2025. We have already initiated work on the augmentation of the drainage adjacent to this Dahisar subway. Once this project is complete, it will enable commuters to bypass the congested lanes through this alternate network of carriageway,” a senior BMC official told The Indian Express.
Source: The Indian Express
