Traffic snarls at Bandra-Kurla Complex could intensify due to road closure from the diamond bourse junction to JSW Centre and Platina building junction to Motilal Nehru Nagar near Trade Centre, for the construction of an underground railway station for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National High-Speed Rail Corporation bullet train project.
Routes that will be shut to traffic till June 30, 2024, include the BKC connector through Kurla’s Razzak junction; MTNL junction to diamond bourse junction by taking a left and then a right turn towards the JSW office in Kherwadi, Bandra (East); the road from Kherwadi to Asian Heart Hospital by taking a left turn and then a right towards the diamond bourse junction to JSW and MMRDA offices and J Kumar yard; Razzak and MTNL junctions and BKC Road 10 to Platina junction by taking a left turn and then a right towards the trade centre.
According to the advisory by traffic police, vehicles that would take the route from Kurla’s Razzak junction to the diamond bourse junction and JSW office towards Kherwadi can instead proceed with a right turn from Asian Heart Hospital; vehicles that use the road from Kherwadi to Asian Heart Hospital to JSW office can now take a left turn from Nabard junction to BKC; instead of Razzak junction to the trade centre, vehicles can take a left turn at MTNL junction; vehicles from Motilal Nehru Nagar Trade Centre headed towards Platina junction in BKC can take a left turn and then a right at the trade centre to proceed to MTNL junction.
Apart from the road closure, police said one of the major reasons for traffic snarls at present is the reduced width of carriageways due to metro works.
The other reason, they said, is BKC has become a connector for vehicles moving from eastern suburbs to western and vice versa. Earlier it was Dharavi. Even internal roads are choked. There is no proper parking planned in BKC.
People complained on social media platforms saying, ‘All internal roads and external connections are jammed…Can take 20 to 40 minutes to get in or out of BKC. Infrastructure has reached peak utilisation and no traffic discipline.’
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