Virar-Alibaug corridor to be aligned by December

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will finalise the alignment of its proposed multi-modal corridor connecting Alibaug and Virar by the year-end.

In a written statement, the officials said that the rough design of the exact nature of the project will be ready in three months.

The Rs10,000-crore project is expected to provide seamless connectivity by the metro as well as by road from Alibaug to Virar. The corridor will bypass the western and eastern suburbs and also the routes which will witness growth in the future.

The proposed alignment will connect four crucial national highways: NH8 (Mumbai-Ahmedabad), NH3 (Mumbai-Agra-Delhi), NH4 (Mumbai-Chennai) and NH17 (Goa-Mangalore-Kerala).

The MMRDA has claimed that the 140-km corridor will reduce the long commute to barely an hour.  Phase-I of the corridor will be of 90km from Virar to Panvel. Phase-II will be of 50km from Panvel to Alibaug.

“The project will provide a 30-metre-wide metro corridor in the median, a four-lane corridor for BRTS, a four-lane corridor for other traffic, 2.5-metre-wide parking lanes for four-wheelers, and 3.5-metre-wide lanes for two-wheelers.  The corridor will pass through Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Dombivli and Panvel,” said MMRDA spokesman Dilip Kawathkar.