Traffic has always been one of Mumbai’s biggest issues. To counter this, the city authorities have been working on new projects and building new roads. However, it seems like with new roads, come new traffic issues for the city! A man took to X (formerly Twitter) to share pictures of traffic lining up to enter Mumbai Coastal Road. He called out Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for not planning the entry and exit to the road and how it is leading to traffic congestion now.
X User Shares Pics Of Traffic Lining Up To Exit & Enter Coastal Road
My BMC built a new Coastal Road
And didn’t think how vehicles will enter or exit it? pic.twitter.com/n0a7m4hmPO
— Zoru Bhathena (@zoru75) June 12, 2024
The Mumbai Coastal Road has been called an engineering marvel for many reasons. However, it looks like even this marvellous road is facing traffic issues in the city. A user on X (formerly Twitter), @zoru75, shared a series of pictures from the Breach Candy area where vehicles were lining up to enter the Mumbai Coastal Road.
In his post, he called out the BMC for not properly making the entry/exit way on the Coastal Road to reduce traffic congestion. These pictures were from June 12, near the Bhulabhai Desai Road. He captioned the post with, “My BMC built a new Coastal Road. And didn’t think how vehicles will enter or exit it?” As you can imagine, this post triggered Mumbaikars. Hundreds of them posted their frustration about the traffic situation in the city and how authorities are not doing anything about it.
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Netizens Share Their Two Cents On This
Turns out, it isn’t just an issue at the Mumbai Coastal Road! Many other similar roads face the same issue as this one. Many netizens replied to @zoru75’s post and shared details about similar situations in other places in the city. People’s frustration with the city’s traffic could be seen in their responses. Here are some comments you cannot miss out on.
Thats for the after thought. Who worries about the ease of movement?? If that was ever a concern we wouldnt have been having nightmares on every junction.
— Devesh Joshi ✋ (@mastermariner78) June 13, 2024
Same with sealink exit in worli. It’s been a decade, still they haven’t fixed it yet
— Zee (@MhaskarChief) June 13, 2024
What did you expect from those who couldn’t even align a railway overbridge with an existing structure?
— Tushar (@tushar) June 13, 2024
Its an issue of most of the roads. We have 5 lane flyovers ending up to a two-lane road.
— CA Suraj Lakhotia (@surajlakhotia) June 13, 2024
It’s always the case, 0 planning, as you said fastest way to get from one traffic jam to another
— J (@death_83) June 13, 2024
Not surprising. As expected. Very consistent@MMRDAOfficial @CMOMaharashtra @mybmc @AshwiniBhide @Dev_Fadnavis @AjitPawarSpeaks
— AK-47 (@AK4784877825) June 13, 2024
Everything in #Mumbai is unplanned, never thought before they take any step
— Shane The Cyclist (@shanethecyclist) June 13, 2024
Now they will construct another flyover over the junction. Clearly lack the will to resolve the actual problem.
— Kaustubh Chemburkar (@thisiskaustubh) June 13, 2024
Same with Atal Setu. If you are travelling from western suburb, entry and exit are not at all planned. Way is through very narrow lanes. God bless new mumbai airport good bless passengers from western suburb
— Bharat Desai (@bsdesaica) June 13, 2024
sea link much the same on the worli end 🤷🏾♂️ you can’t fix traffic problems if you don’t fix the bottlenecks
— Maybe Yoda (@yoda_maybe) June 13, 2024
Gosh who thinks about all that? Just dig dig dig and then build build build.
— Prasanna SUHAS Kulkarni (@__deconstructed) June 14, 2024
They still haven’t fixed the exit properly for the BWSL on the Worli side. The last mile is never thought of by BMC
— Heblonski (@heblonski) June 13, 2024
The spirit of Bombay will find a way.
— George? Oh well… (@cyntalist) June 13, 2024
Poor planning of road infrastructure is the highlight of our city. We need a visionary
— Jacinta D’souza (@jesskeepwalkin) June 13, 2024
And it wasn’t just the case of Mumbai, it seems. People shared similar situations they had to encounter in different parts of the country too.
Urban planning department is joke. In Pune they have made a three way bridge where you had intersection, leads to traffic jams, I guess this bridge was first in the world which had traffic signal.
— Anup Tilak (@anuptilak) June 13, 2024
Same story across India …in NCR, the Delhi – Manesar (so-called) expressway had toll plazas without any traffic engineering thinking, no FOBs to enable people cross the long expressway, bad entry/ exit planning (perennial traffic jams everywhere)..
— Arvind Singhal (@asinghal2004) June 14, 2024
This is a really frustrating situation. We hope the authorities are able to figure out a way through this ordeal and make sure the traffic situation in the city improves. What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments.
Cover Image Courtesy: X/@zoru75
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