Demand from Breach Candy residents being discussed, studies will be conducted: BMC

Residents of the upmarket Breach Candy area in south Mumbai might just get their way.

- Sabah Virani

MUMBAI: Following months of clamour for an additional exit of the Mumbai Coastal Road at Nepean Sea Road in order to ease congestion at the Amarsons interchange, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said that building one is feasible but not straightforward. And certainly not cheap.

At a meeting between Breach Candy residents, Malabar Hill MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha, and senior BMC officials on Thursday, additional municipal commissioner (projects) Amit Saini said that building an additional exit "is certainly feasible, although there are some impediments we will have to work around; and it will be expensive".

To ensure the coastal road remains signal-free, one possibility for the proposed exit, said Saini, is a vehicular underpass after the Amarsons interchange for southbound traffic. The underpass will then merge onto a new road on the reclaimed land at Breach Candy that will travel alongside the coastal road tunnel till it makes the turn towards Nepean Sea Road. "But this is only the discussion stage; it's yet to be studied," added Saini.