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Thane’s Rs 55,000 crore infrastructure overhaul criticised
Thane's civic authorities are pushing a Rs 55,000 crore infrastructure package including metro lines, tunnels, flyovers and road widening to tackle congestion. But residents and experts say the construction itself is causing…
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Thane's civic authorities are pushing a Rs 55,000 crore infrastructure package including metro lines, tunnels, flyovers and road widening to tackle congestion. But residents and experts say the construction itself is causing fresh disruption, with delays and bottlenecks. The Times of India reports that Deputy CM Eknath Shinde defends the works as necessary, while urban planner Sulakshana Mahajan warns that road-widening alone cannot solve systemic mobility issues.
Projects include the Thane-Borivli Tunnel, Metro Line 4, and a ring metro. Some works, like the first phase of the Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme and the Kapurbawdi flyover extension, have been completed. But commuters complain that the city feels perpetually under construction, and opposition leaders say the cure is intensifying the congestion it was meant to fix.
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The narrative that big infrastructure is the only answer ignores the chaos it creates. Both sides have a point: the city badly needs decongestion, but running multiple projects simultaneously has turned daily life into a grind. The real test will be whether the Kapurbawdi flyover extension and the new metro lines actually cut travel times once completed, or whether the concrete simply shifts the bottleneck elsewhere.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, ndtvprofit.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
