Mumbai Mania

Mumbai's traffic woes are well known, with the situation reaching alarming levels.

The scenario might change soon with BMC's plan to redesign the routes and reduce the number of traffic signals, but only in South Mumbai.

Probably because South Mumbai is considered to be the business hub, and by making these changes will reduce the time people spend waiting at signals.

This is definitely good news for people who travel to town for work. The plan is to convert the heavy traffic roads into one way and divert additional traffic to two-way roads.

When this is implemented, traffic will be reduced at Malabar Hill, Kemps Corner, Peddar Road, Tardeo and Haji Ali area as they will be turned into one-way roads.

All this comes at a cost. The BMC will implement the Area Traffic Control Project worth Rs 50 crore funded by the World Bank under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP).

The number of traffic signals will also be drastically reduced on these roads, and they will be automatically controlled. This will lead to some chaos initially, but if implemented systematically, it will be a great boon. Maybe the radio channels will regret if traffic smoothens out.:)