Traffic snarls on Eastern freeway during peak hours

July 17, 2014

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The Eastern freeway, which provides faster connectivity from suburbs to south Mumbai, witnessed traffic snarls during morning peak hour rush.

To avoid water logging on roads and also to avoid travelling by trains which were delayed, several citizens preferred going over the freeway. “However, we were stuck in almost bumper to bumper traffic near Wadala on the freeway.

There was poor visibility due to heavy rains and this too slowed down the traffic,” said an office-goer who was travelling in company car. Many commuters had formed a pool of three to four passengers and taken black-and-yellow taxis or Merus/TabCabs to reach office by freeway. But what would have taken 20 minutes to travel took more than 35- 40 minutes, a commuter recalled.

Several office-goers from Kalyan, Thane and Navi Mumbai converged on the freeway to avoid waterlogging on other roads and this led to traffic congestion after the tunnel at Chembur, eye-witnesses said.

The MMRDA had recently extended the freeway from Panjarpol in Chembur to Ghatkopar and this has encouraged motorists from Ghatkopar, Powai, Mulund and Thane to take the road route to CST over the freeway.

Source: Times Of India