Click to play videoMumbai: Mumbai's non-stop traffic and congested roads often proves dangerous for its commuters. However, with skywalks being planned throughout the city, the future seems bright for the city's pedestrians.
The first victim of the Rs 13.4 crore skywalk at a busy junction in Bandra is stuck even before the ambitious project has kicked off. For a trailer driver Tej Bahadur, the next task at hand is to plan a trailer across the 20-feet-high skywalk.
“The trailer can't pass through this junction because this is three-feet taller than the skywalk,” says Tej Bahadur.
Stretching from the Eastern side of the Bandra railway station to Kalanagar junction, the one-kilometer stretch is one of the 50 skywalks that this city's development authority, the MMRDA, plans to build throughout the city. The total budget allotted for these walkways is a whopping Rs 600 crore.
“Some of these skywalks will be signature structures. It will have cable straight kind of structures, which will look beautiful,” says MMRDA Commissioner, Ratnakar Gaikwad.
While a skywalk may act as an obstruction for tall and heavy vehicles, it hopes to give Mumbai's harrowed pedestrians a little break from the congested traffic junctions before the monsoon begins.
“I travel this way pretty often and the thing is there's no actual crossing here so a skywalk's really going to help that,” says Danielle D'Souza.
“I think if there's a safe walk from East to West, it will certainly benefit especially an elderly citizen like me,” says Dr Kutty.
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