After years of delay, SCLR-Western Expressway extension may open in May

In a city increasingly defined by traffic gridlock, bridges are rising — sleek, soaring and reshaping the way Mumbai moves. The BMC has more than 20 bridges in the pipeline. In this series, HT examines these bridges, their costs, their impact and how they will transform commuting in Maximum City

- Sabah Virani

MUMBAI: The long-awaited and long-under-construction extension to the Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR), connecting it directly to the Western Express Highway (WEH), is 95% complete, as per the construction authority MMRDA, which hopes to open it in the current month of May. But as the extension has crossed many deadlines starting 2019 till the early months of 2025, commuters are waiting with fingers crossed, hoping for a pre-monsoon opening.