The MMRDA's plan to kickstart the second phase of metro on the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd route may face protests from citizens.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority’s (MMRDA) plan to kickstart the second phase of metro on the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd route may face protests from citizens. Since the authority is planning an underground third route from Colaba to Bandra, residents of western suburbs are complaining that they have been deprived of a similar metro.
Ashish Shelar, BJP corporator who is also a member of MMRDA, will hold a series of meetings of various citizens’ groups to oppose the elevated metro which will pass through the already congested Link Road as well as Linking Road.
“As a member of the authority as well as a peoples’ representative, I have raised an objection to the elevated metro. I have demanded that the metro should be underground. Also, no property should be either demolished or acquired in the process of the construction. MMRDA has so far not decided the final alignment of the second corridor. The authority must take the citizens into confidence and physically show the sites where the metro stations are to be erected,” said Shelar.
Interestingly, in a reply to an RTI by architect Nitin Killawala, MMRDA has failed to
give the engineer’s plan, or any other plan which details the exact route of the metro-2. Similarly, the authority has also not provided the number of properties which may be affected during the construction of the metro.
Killawala has also demanded the metro to be underground. “If the authority says that underground metro is not cost effective, why it is constructing one underground corridor? Why have they kept residents of the western suburbs in the dark while planning the entire route? The metro in Delhi has ruined many localities surrounding it. When we have this example, how can MMRDA still plan a similar metro in Mumbai on an even more congested road?” questioned Killawala.
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