Potholes on Dindoshi flyover, shower jam Western Express Highway

MUMBAI: Motorists had an infernal time inching their way on the Western Express Highway on Wednesday morning when a heavy spell of rainfall, coupled with potholes on the Dindoshi flyover, threw the south-bound traffic out of gear for six hours. The MSRDC has finally announced that contractors would shortly undertake repairs.

It was only in May that the south-bound stretch of the flyover was repaired but craters have already started appearing there.

The snarl-up was so bad that it took almost an hour to travel from Kandivli (E) to Goregaon (E), which otherwise can be covered in 20 minutes. With the stretch being choc-a-bloc with cars, the traffic police allowed south-bound vehicles to use one of the north-bound lanes on the Dindoshi flyover, providing brief respite to motorists.

"My colleagues and I have been carpooling and it took us three hours to travel from Dahisar to Prabhadevi via WEH. It was particularly chaotic at Dindoshi," said Ashish Pawar, an insurance company employee.

"Whichever engineer gave the final nod to the flyover repair work in May needs to be suspended and the contractor should be penalized for misusing public money. The names of all those involved in the project should be made public. It's high time that the government became answerable for such lapses," said activist Sandeep Ohri who left his Kandivli home at 7.40am and reached his office at Aarey around 8.45am. To avoid the jam on WEH, some motorists took a detour and used the Link Road.

MSRDC joint managing director S M Ramchandani assured that the contractor has been asked to undertake repairs on the Dindoshi flyover shortly.

"This is a temporary measure. Once the monsoon ends, the contractors have been told to use stone matrix technology for permanent repairs," he said. According to the MSRDC, the Dindoshi flyover surface was damaged in June because the contractor did not get adequate time for repairs in May as monsoon was fast approaching then. Sources said the layer of asphalt membrane could not settle and the layer is one-inch, while it should have been at least 3-inch.

An official from the Mumbai Entry Points Limited (MEPL), which maintains the flyover, also assured: "We will repair the stretch as soon as the rain subsides."

For the time being, the traffic police have increased bandobast around the flyover and prohibited heavy vehicles from using it.

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