I stay in Goregaon and work in Mahim - due to the pain in getting in to the WE Highway as well as the overbridge work in Santacruz, I have been taking the Linking road for quite some time now. This morning, as usual around 7.45 I left home to take the Link Road - but the west side of Goregon Shastrinagar was flooded and henced decided to take the Highway - somehow managed to reach the chincoli bridge where there was a traffic jam due to flooding in East of Goregaon - after crossing to east I took the Malad Route (about the hill Mahindra colony) and got on to the highway... To my utter dismay, the moment I crossed the goregaon highway overbridge, I could only see ocean of traffic not moving an inch forward. It took also 1.30 hours to pass the half kilometer stretch in front of HUB since the highway in one wide was totally submerged in water - I had a sigh of relief when I crossed that area only to be halted at Andheri overbridger for another one hour due to flooding at the airport junction.. Many of the vihcles were trying to take a U turn to go back, but I was determined to reach my destination. A la, once I crossed the airport junction, it was just 10 minutes that I reached my office at Mahim - absolutely free highway, never ever seen before. Is there a Corporation like BMC exists in Mumbai?????
RE:wow what a bad day
by Chanakya on Jul 01, 2008 11:57 AM Permalink
for a 22 km stretch from Goregaon to Mahim, it took more that 3 hours drive...so pathetic situation in mumbai, especially during monsoon...
