Mumbai: One week delay to re-open Hughes Road

MUMBAI: The BMC will open N S Patkar, or

Hughes road

, completely for traffic from June 10.

Malabar Hill witnessed two landslides last year in a space of 50 days, resulting in a cave-in on N S Patkar Road and also damaging

Ridge road

(B G Kher Marg). Repairs to Ridge road are to be carried out after monsoon. The reconstruction of the retaining wall, the road repair and laying of drains was to be completed by May-end, but has now been delayed by about a week. Monsoon is expected to hit Mumbai by June 10.



P Velarasu, additional municipal commissioner (projects), said the embankment work will be completed by June 8, cement concreting of the road is complete as also drain work.

The restoration and

rejuvenation

plan has been designed by IIT Bombay. The plan was to construct 2,000 piles that will bond the earth to the rock.

Traffic police said while BMC had not given them any particular date for throwing the Kemps Corner stretch fully open for traffic, they had been informed that it would take around a fortnight to do so. Local resident Mukul Mehra said the BMC has done a good job in the span of time available to them. “The civic body has not only widened the road and concretised it, but also used the opportunity to complete the storm water drain that was incomplete and not connected,” he said.


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