Notice from CIDCO scares hoarding owners
Notices to dismantle hundreds of unlawfully erected hoardings by private advertisers in 94 villages inside the Navi Mumbai International Impact Notification region (NAINA region) have been sent out by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO). Hoarding owners have responded to this notice by taking swift action and have started taking down the advertisement boards. […]
Mumbai Metro lines 2A and 7 record 100 million riders combined
Since opening, the elevated Mumbai Metro Lines 2A and 7 have seen a total of 100 million riders. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which is in charge of running and maintaining these metro lines, claims that the 100 million ridership threshold shows how popular these services are becoming even though they have only […]
Bombay High Court requests that CIDCO provide a detailed hoardings policy
The City and Industrial Development Authority (CIDCO) has been ordered by the Bombay High Court to create a suitable policy for handling hoardings, emphasising the necessity of safety audits as opposed to removing all billboards altogether. According to a Times of India story, Justices Nitin Borkar and Somasekhar Sundaresan referred to CIDCO’s practice of arbitrarily […]
By June 10, the second section of the Mumbai Coastal Road between Worli and Marine Drive will be open for traffic
According to sources, traffic will begin to flow on the second phase of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, which connects Worli and Marine Drive, on June 10. In addition, on May 28, authorities examined the southbound tunnel at Marine Drive, which was a part of the first phase that was opened in March, in order […]
The Orange Gate Tunnel Project’s geotechnical study has begun
For the projected underground Orange Gate Road Tunnel Project, the contractor chosen by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has started geotechnical investigation work. A senior official stated that the MMRDA, the nodal body in charge of the project, is surveying about 35 places, and that seven of these have already undergone testing. The […]
Infrastructure in Mumbai: From the Coastal Road to the Sea Link
Driving from Bandra to the southern areas of Mumbai took at least half an hour in the early 2000s. When the Bandra-Worli Sea Link was built in 2009, the suburbs became more accessible to the metropolis, changing that. Nowadays, it only takes ten minutes to travel from Bandra to Worli. After fifteen years, it is […]
Phase 1 operations of Mumbai Metro 3 are scheduled to start on July 1st
The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Lim (MMRCL) is getting ready to open Phase 1 of Metro 3 or the aqua line, with operations scheduled to start on July 1. Currently, ninety-five percent of the Aarey Depot’s construction is finished. Trains will run between the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) and Aarey on this line. Integrated trial runs […]
Metro Line 3: Aarey Depot Construction is Nearly Complete, and Operations Will Begin Soon
With 99.5% of the construction at the Aarey depot finished, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) is ready for Metro 3’s Phase 1 operations to begin. The Metro line 3 will operate trains between Aarey and Bandra-Kurla complex in order to supervise and evaluate crucial elements of the commissioning and trials. Only small finishing […]
Will the booming infrastructure in Mumbai make it a more livable city?
Mumbai, our financial capital hub, is finally seeing a fresh infrastructural development. The city has just witnessed the opening of the seaside route following a flurry of construction activities. Constructed at an expense of Rs 13,000 crore, the 11-kilometre, partially subterranean waterway links the island city’s southernmost point to Worli’s midtown, and from there to […]
Road construction that prevented water from reaching flamingo habitat has started by NMMC
Even though the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has not yet taken any action, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has begun work to remove the obstruction in one area in response to BJP MLA Ganesh Naik’s threat on Thursday that he would destroy a road that has impacted the flow of creek water […]