An argument against indiscriminate development promoting personal motorized transport. Hansel DSouza is an activist who has been piloting urban issues in Mumbai, India. He is also a professional corporate trainer, marketing consultant and professor of management studies.

1. Coastal Road will
destroy Mumbai
By Hansel D’Souza
Juhu Citizens Welfare Group

2. Objections

3. 1.Reclamation
2.Huge Ecological Cost
3.Alternatives Available

4. Reclamation of
29 hectares at
Nariman Point
has resulted in
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Dadar Beach
On the Rocks !

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Mahim Coast,
during Monsoons
July 24, 2009

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Juhu Beach
reduced from 1.5
km
to 0.5 km width at
low tide

8. Imagine what
170 hectares
of reclamation
for Coastal Road
will do to our beaches!!!
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9. Ecological
Costs

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Havoc caused by
11.07 km Metro I,
imagine 36 km
construction on
residential West Coast

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Fishing villages
and livelihoods
will be destroyed

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Lush mangroves will
perish without fresh
tidal water when the
Coastal Road comes
up

13. Alternatives

14. Mumbai has a
Coastal Road
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15. Remove all traffic
signals on
- Marine
Drive
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16. Remove all traffic
signals on
- Haji Ali
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17. Remove all traffic
signals on
- Worli
Seaface
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18. Replace All
Traffic Signals
with pedestrian
subways
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19. Connect Netaji
Subash Road
to Haji Ali by
tunnel
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20. Connect Bandra to
Madh by Sea link
Connect
Bandra to
Madh by
Sea link
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AlternativeProposed Road

22. Benefits
• No need to damage fragile
coastal ecology
• No interference in tide patterns
• No reclamation required
• No pollution from 5 years of
construction
• No debris issues
• Low cost project
• Low time frame
• Same benefits as Coastal Road

23. Upgrade Existing
Coastal Road