Western Freeway (Mumbai)

Western Freeway (Mumbai)

The Western Freeway (also known as Coastal Freeway) is an ambitious transportation infrastructure project in Mumbai, India that envisions the construction of multiple bridges over the Arabian Sea to reduce traffic-congestion between the suburbs and the city. The freeway will stretch from Marine Drive in South Mumbai to Kandivli in the north, a distance of 29km.

The first phase of the project, known as the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, was completed in June 2009, and links Bandra in the north and Worli to the south with a cable stayed bridge spanning the Mahim Bay. This development has relieved the congestion on the Mahim Causeway, which until then had been the only road between the suburbs and the main city of Mumbai on the western sea front.

Three additional stages of the project are in various stages of planning or commissioning. As of 26 February 2010, the second stage of the project, which envisages an extension of the sea-link from Worli to Haji Ali, has been contracted to a consortium led by Reliance Infrastructure. Additional extensions from Bandra to Versova, and from Haji Ali to Nariman Point, are currently in the planning stage.