MTSU to work on seamless travel for last mile commuters

“The purpose is to ensure smooth movement of commuters towards the two ends of a mass transit system as well as easy dispersal of traffic from the two ends,” said MTSU director B C Khatua. MTSU has already narrowed in on the existing and possible hiccups for vehicular traffic along major roads,commuter traffic along the various Metro and Monorail stations,railway stations,bus stops and pedestrian movement overall.

Some of the probable bottlenecks that the study will look in to include the dispersal of the commuter traffic flowing in from Ghatkopar railway station and the Metro line 1 at Ghatkopar,from Kurla station and the Metro line 2 towards VN Purav Marg,from the Dadar east railway station-monorail and from Chembur railway station-monorail.

The study will also look at the faster movement of traffic that currently zips through the Bandra Worli Sea link only to get stuck at the T junction at Worli. Similarly,it will look at easing of traffic congestion near the Khada Parsi statue junction of Byculla,traffic along the P D’Mello Road and the airport bound traffic that piles up at the Kherwadi junction at Bandra east.

“We aim to reduce the travel time from Nariman Point to the international airport to one hour through various means such as flyovers,signal-free roads and so on. Another major project under review is the construction of the Peddar Road flyover,” said Khatua. He explained the study will examine ways to construct the flyover without having to dig up the portion of the road for re-aligning a 100-year-old water pipeline that runs through the middle of the road. “The road sees a lot of VIP movement and digging it to re-lay the pipeline and then anchor the pillars of the flyover will render it unusable for more than a year. ,” he said.