THANE: Municipal commissioner RA Rajeev's grand plans to flag-off a Light Rail Transport and a tramway has invited mixed response from Thaneites, with a section of here officialdom here insisting that the project would be a reality in the next couple of years.
Rajeev said the LRT will be his priority and in the first phase the locomotive will be introduced from the Thane entry point at Anand Nagar on the eastern express highway up to Ovla village on the Ghodbunder road here. The 10 km LRT on this route will facilitate an alternate transport system in the city and will improve connectivity for lakhs of families residing in residential enclaves along the Ghodbunder road.
Rajeev said a detailed project report on the LRT will be prepared soon and the new transport mode can be made available for Thaneites in 18 months time, provided the project meets the administrative, financial and political scrutiny as well, he said.
It is estimated that the LRT's first phase would cost anywhere close to Rs 800 crores. The IAS officer said preliminary studies reveal that the costs calculated for the 10 km project is on the higher side vis-a-vis the income expected to be generated.
He, however, assured that the TMC will also stake its own funds to the tune of Rs 160 crores for this project which would be the local civic body's funding plan to bridge the gap.
Thaneites, however, are unsure if the project would ever take off given the costs involved while others said that the corporation's initiative is too little and much too late.
It's a good idea and probably could have shown concrete results had it been taken up at least seven to eight years back. The authorities are struggling to complete work on the flyovers along the Ghodbunder road close to five years after work began. It is the main reason for the traffic snarls and serpentine queue and if they have not failed to sort out things and fasten the process of law for these bridges getting permissions for the LRT could take one year,'' said Sachin Salunke.
Officials in the TMC, however, said that the corporation will be one of the first in the nation to introduce such system on the city roads and it will aggressively push for an effective and efficient transport system in Thane.
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