BMC Clearing Khataras, Junk Off Express Highways

The municipality has launched an initiative to spruce up the Western Express Highway (WEH) and Eastern Express Highway (EEH), and clear away obstacles to the flow of traffic along these two arterial roads that extend along the length of Mumbai's suburbs, and beyond.

- HT Correspondent

MUMBAI:

Starting Monday night, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) focused on removing abandoned vehicles, clearing other obstacles, cleaning the roads with mechanized sweeping, sprucing up central medians and removing encroachments.

Apart from the highways themselves, the initiative focuses on service roads, ramps and other areas. The campaign extends from 10 pm to 6 am, from March 17 to March 22. It kicked off at Sion on the EEH and Bandra on the WEH.

On the first day, 16.3 km of roads were cleaned—8.8 km on the EEH (covering M-West, N, and L wards), and 7.8 km on the WEH (covering H-East and K-East wards).