Mumbai’s Rs 14,000 Crore Goregaon-Mulund Link Road: First Flyover Of The 12.2 Km Project To Open By May 2026

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday (3 October) said that the first flyover of the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project will be ready for use by May 2026, the Indian Express reported.

The Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) is one of Mumbai’s most ambitious infrastructure projects, with a 12.2-km, Rs 14,000 crore corridor of tunnels, flyovers and interchanges that promises to finally bridge the gap between the city’s western and eastern suburbs.

As part of its first phase, a 1.2-km flyover is taking shape.

Starting near the Dindoshi court and stretching up to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), it will eventually link straight into two massive tunnels that will burrow 6 km under the park before surfacing at Mulund.

At the construction site, work is already on to assemble the giant Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), which will begin drilling beneath the park early next year.

“The flyover will have 31 pillars, of which 27 have been erected. The work of erecting the remaining four pillars is currently underway. The west-bound arm of the flyover will be completed by January 2026 and we have set an April 2026 target to complete the east-bound arm of the flyover. Following which post-construction or ancillary works will be taken up and we aim to open the flyover by May 2026,” an official was quoted as saying by IE.

The flyover will be a modern, six-lane thoroughfare, complete with an elevated circular intersection and pedestrian walkways on both sides.

Right now, traveling from Goregaon to Mulund during peak hours can take up to 90 minutes.

Once the GMLR is ready, the journey is expected to shrink to just 25 minutes.

While the flyover is slated to open in 2026, the twin tunnels beneath SGNP are scheduled for completion by 2028, with the entire project becoming fully operational by 2029.

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