September 14th 2023.
Mumbai: On Thursday, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena visited the Delisle bridge in Lower Parel. Aditya Thackeray spoke out during the visit and expressed his frustration at the delay in the bridge's completion due to the gravel scams in March and April this year.
The BMC had plans to open a single lane of the bridge's second arm on September 18, but due to the pandemic and other delays, this has not been possible. This has caused much distress to the local residents, as the bridge has been closed for the past five years. The Lower Parel Nagrik Uddhanpul Kruti Samiti took to the streets and marched to the bridge site with their kids on Wednesday in protest.
Aditya Thackeray, along with MLC Sunil Shinde and former Mayor Snehal Ambekar, visited the bridge on Thursday evening. Aditya slammed the BMC for not taking sufficient action to finish the bridge in time. He publicly asked the civic chief to visit the site and speed up the work, as there seems to be a purposeful delay.
The Delisle bridge is a crucial link between Lower Parel, Worli, Prabhadevi, and Currey roads in the west and Byculla and other areas in the east. It was declared unsafe by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and closed on July 24, 2018. Since then, local residents and office-goers have been facing traffic issues in the Parel, Dadar TT, and Mahalaxmi areas.
It seems that the BMC has once again missed the deadline to open the bridge. This is the second time they have failed to open the bridge, much to the frustration of the local residents. It remains to be seen when the bridge will be open to the public.
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