Mumbai's suburban guardian minister Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday, February 21, said infrastructural agencies in the city will undertake refurbishment of major arterial roads to make them pedestrian-friendly and provide cycling tracks wherever feasibility is established.
This development comes in the view to boost the non-motorized transport. He also stated that Mumbai's Western Express Highway (WEH) might soon get a cycle track.
Aaditya Thackeray was speaking at an event where Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray performed the bhoomipujan for the 4.5 km Sewri-Worli connector and inaugurated a cycle track as well as smart parking in Bandra-Kurla Complex, besides throwing open one arm of the flyover at Kalanagar.
Aaditya said, “BMC and MMRDA are going to improve arterial streets like SV Road, Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road, Western Express Highway, LBS Marg. We will improve pavements and pedestrian crossings in the coming five years. Wherever feasible, cycling tracks will also be provided.”
Last week, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) revived its plan to install a cycle track in the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). According to the plan, around 5km in the commercial hub will have cycle tracks along the pavement, Rajeev said. The state environment minister Aaditya Thackeray had also tweeted in support.
In 2018, the BMC had also decided to lay out a 36-km cycle track between Mulund and Sion, along the Tansa pipeline. While the deadline for the ambitious project was 2020, it got delayed owing to the pandemic and less than 30 per cent of the work has been completed till date. Earlier, MMRDA had experimented with cycle tracks in BKC in 2011, but failed.
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