Had been to Mumbai last weekend. On Sunday afternoon, me, my wifey and my in-laws decided to go for a drive on sea-link. Started from Mira road which is good 30km from Bandra at 5 pm. Suprisingly the traffic was kind of sparse. Reached Bandra at 5:35 sharp, thanks to Westren exp highway. Finally we reached the sea link in about 40 mins. Our first reaction was like "Wow" this is huge. The sea link is not yet fully operational. Only 1 lane is open for commuting and the construction of the other lane is in progress on a typical govt schedule. These guys have already taken good 4-5 years and still it is not fully operational !!
The toll for one side journey is 50 and for return its 75 which is quite hefty. The pune-mumbai express highway toll for 90km is 140. It was nice to drive on the sea link. You can easily maintain speeds above 80. One thing I noticed is, for time being the govt has put up hard plastic divider for the bidirectional traffic. It is kind of risky as few people neglet this and drive above 100. Any single mistake by anybody and it would be a disaster.
Overall the drive is good but you can hardly see anything from your car apart from tall buildings. What impressed me is the drive on Worli sea face. South Mumbai rocks for sure. The buildings, locales suddenly change once you enter south mumbai. The resedential buildings on the Worli sea face have got an awesome view. We then went to HajiAli to visit my in laws old house. On the Worli-Hajiali road I saw RollsRoyce and Jaguar-Land Rover showrooms. To my disappointment, I found Heera Panna complex is closed. I wanted to visit the shopping complex to have a look at the mobile phones.
So it was a nice short drive on a kind of lazy sunday evening. I enjoyed driving on south Mumbai roads. The traffic is very disciplined in mumbai unlike Pune. Due to shortage of time we could not go to Marine drive. Happy Motoring !!
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