Jeejabai Bhosle Marg, the official name of the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road (GMLR) or the Mankhurd-Ghatkopar Link Road (MGLR), is a road in eastern

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

connecting the suburbs of

Mankhurd Mankhurd (Pronunciation: aːnkʰuɾd̪(ə) is a suburb in eastern Mumbai, Maharashtra. Mankhurd railway station is on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. Geography The Mankhurd suburb is part of and the easternmost boundary of t ...

and

Ghatkopar Ghatkopar (Pronunciation: �ʱaːʈkopəɾ is a suburb in eastern Mumbai. The area is served by the railway station on the Central Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway and the metro station on Line 1 of the Mumbai Metro. History Ghatkopar in ...

. It connects to the Mumbai-Pune Expressway via the

Sion Panvel Highway The Sion Panvel Expressway is a 25 km Indian highway located entirely in the state of Maharashtra, that connects Sion in Mumbai with Panvel, via Navi Mumbai. It is one of the busiest and most important roads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Reg ...

. The road is 4 km long and 200 feet wide. Construction on its main carriageway started in 2005 and it was opened in 2007.

BRTS

On 7 September 2012, BEST announced that it would implement a

bus rapid transit system Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability and other quality features than a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes ...

(BRTS) with dedicated lanes on the GMLR. Under the project, the GMLR will be widened to 60m and concretised. The project will cost . Existing service roads on each side of the artery will be converted into additional drive lanes, expanding the road to four lanes in each direction. The

slip lane A slip lane, also known as a filter lane in the United Kingdom, is a road at a junction that allows motorists to change roads without actually entering an intersection. Some intersections that are controlled by lights offer a slip lane, which a ...

will be reserved for BEST buses. Underneath

reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete (RC), also called reinforced cement concrete (RCC) and ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having hig ...

road, the BMC will construct lines for electricity, gas, water and telephone. A reinforced concrete wall will be constructed at culverts and bridges after encroachments are removed, so that the embankment of the road and the new reinforced concrete box cell of utility services are protected. There will also be 2 pedestrian bridges at Bainganwadi Junction and Shivaji Nagar Junction. Following the opening of the Eastern Freeway in 2013, traffic from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road is shared with the former, and merges with the GMLR near RBK School. GMLR also helps ease traffic on the

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Roads in Mumbai Streets in Mumbai Transport infrastructure completed in 2007 2007 establishments in Maharashtra {{India-road-stub

BRTS

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