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Dharmveer Swarajya Rakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Coastal Road is a 8-lane, 29.2-km long grade separated expressway along Mumbai's western coastline connecting Marine Lines in the south to Kandivali in the north.[1]

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  1. 63 relations: AECOM, Arabian Sea, Ashwini Bhide, Bandra–Worli Sea Link, Basalt, Boulder, Breccia, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Bus turnout, Charni Road railway station, Coastal Regulation Zone, Coral, COVID-19 pandemic, Deep foundation, Eknath Shinde, Environmental degradation, Ernst & Young, Expressways of India, Floodgate, Gateway of India, Girgaon Chowpatty, Goods and Services Tax (India), Grade separation, Haji Ali Dargah, Hanging Gardens of Mumbai, HDC Hyundai Development Company, Hindustan Construction Company, Hindustan Times, Interchange (road), Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Kandivli, Land reclamation, Larsen & Toubro, Malabar Hill, Marine Lines, Mavala, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Motor Vehicles Act, Multistorey car park, Nariman Point, National Centre for the Performing Arts (India), National Institute of Oceanography, India, Pedestrian crossing, Princess Street (Mumbai), Prithviraj Chavan, Raj Bhavan, Mumbai, Sambhaji, Sapric, Seawall, Shale, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. Expressways in Maharashtra
  3. Proposed expressways in India
  4. Proposed infrastructure in Maharashtra
  5. Roads in Mumbai

AECOM

AECOM (formerly AECOM Technology Corporation; stylised AΞCOM) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm.

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Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea (हिन्दी|Hindī: सिंधु सागर, baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, on the southwest by Somalia.

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Ashwini Bhide

Ashwini Bhide is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, predominantly known for her work on the Aqua Line or popularly known as Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro.

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The Bandra–Worli Sea Link (officially known as Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link) is a 5.6 km long, 8-lane wide cable-stayed bridge that links Bandra in the Western Suburbs of Mumbai with Worli in South Mumbai. Coastal Road (Mumbai) and Bandra–Worli Sea Link are transport in Mumbai.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Boulder

In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), or Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is the governing civic body of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra.

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Bus turnout

A bus turnout, bus pullout, bus bay, bus lay-by (UK), or off-line bus stop is a designated spot on the side of a road where buses or trams may pull out of the flow of traffic to pick up and drop off passengers.

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Charni Road railway station

Churney Road, (station code: CYR) is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway.

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Coastal Regulation Zone

Under the section 3 of Environment Protection Act, 1986 of India, Coastal Regulation Zone notification was issued in February 1991 for the first time, for regulation of activities in the coastal area by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

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Coral

Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Eknath Shinde

Eknath Sambhaji Shinde (pronunciation: eknaːt̪ʰ ʃin̪d̪e; born 9 February 1964) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 20th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership.

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Expressways of India

Expressways are the highest class of roads in India.

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Floodgate

Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems.

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Gateway of India

The Gateway of India is an arch-monument completed in 1924 on the waterfront of Mumbai (Bombay), India.

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Girgaon Chowpatty

Girgaon Chowpatty (IAST: Giragāva Chaupāṭī), is a public beach along the Queen’s Necklace adjoining Marine Drive in the Girgaon area of Mumbai (Bombay), Konkan division, India.

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Goods and Services Tax (India)

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a successor to VAT used in India on the supply of goods and service.

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Grade separation

In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights (grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other transit routes when they cross each other.

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Haji Ali Dargah

The Haji Ali Dargah is a mosque and dargah or the monument of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari located on an islet off the coast of Worli in the southern Mumbai.

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Hanging Gardens of Mumbai

The Hanging Gardens, in Mumbai, also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.

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HDC Hyundai Development Company

HDC Hyundai Development Company (HDC현대산업개발) was created in 2018 through a spin-off from HDC Group's holding company HDC Holdings.

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Hindustan Construction Company

Hindustan Construction Company Limited (HCC) is an Indian multinational engineering and construction company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.

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Interchange (road)

In the field of road transport, an interchange (American English) or a grade-separated junction (British English) is a road junction that uses grade separations to allow for the movement of traffic between two or more roadways or highways, using a system of interconnecting roadways to permit traffic on at least one of the routes to pass through the junction without interruption from crossing traffic streams.

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Jawaharlal Nehru Port

Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as JNPT and Nhava Sheva Port, is the second largest container port in India after Mundra Port.

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Kandivli

Kandivali (Pronunciation: kaːn̪d̪iʋəliː) formerly Khandolee is a suburb in the north of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and has a large Marathi, Koli, Gujarati population followed by others.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds.

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Larsen & Toubro

Larsen & Toubro Limited, abbreviated as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate, with interests in industrial technology, heavy industry, engineering, construction, manufacturing, power, information technology, military and financial services.

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Malabar Hill

Malabar Hill are residential areas in Mumbai.

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Marine Lines

Marine Lines is a locality in South Mumbai.

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Mavala

Mavala (plural mavale in Marathi) was a name used for people of the hilly Maval region west of the present day Indian city of Pune.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry.

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Motor Vehicles Act

The Motor Vehicles Act is an Act of the Parliament of India which regulates all aspects of road transport vehicles.

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Multistorey car park

A multistorey car park (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistorey, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed for car, motorcycle, and bicycle parking in which parking takes place on more than one floor or level.

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Nariman Point

Nariman Point is a prominent downtown area of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India.

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National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)

The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is a multi-venue, multi-purpose cultural centre in Mumbai, India, which aims to promote and preserve India's heritage of music, dance, theatre, film, literature and photography.

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National Institute of Oceanography, India

The National Institute of Oceanography, founded on 1 January 1966 as one of 38 constituent laboratories of the CSIR, is a self-governing research organisation in India that conducts scientific research and studies on the unique oceanographic features of the northern Indian Ocean.

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Pedestrian crossing

A pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk in American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road, street or avenue.

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Princess Street (Mumbai)

Princess Street is a road in south Mumbai, India.

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Prithviraj Chavan

Prithviraj Chavan (born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014.

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Raj Bhavan, Mumbai

Raj Bhavan, Mumbai is the official residence of the governor of Maharashtra.

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Sambhaji

Sambhaji (Sambhaji Bhonsle,; c.14 May 1657 – 11 March 1689), also known as Shambhuraje, was the second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, ruling from 1681 to 1689.

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Sapric

A sapric is a subtype of a histosol where virtually all of the organic material has undergone sufficient decomposition to prevent the identification of plant parts.

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Seawall

A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shivaji

Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale,; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty.

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Tenet (film)

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas.

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Tetrapod (structure)

A tetrapod is a form of wave-dissipating concrete block used to prevent erosion caused by weather and longshore drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures such as seawalls and breakwaters.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Tied-arch bridge

A tied-arch bridge is an arch bridge in which the outward-directed horizontal forces of the arch(es) are borne as tension by a chord tying the arch ends rather than by the ground or the bridge foundations.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway.

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Tunnel boring machine

A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole" or a "worm", is a machine used to excavate tunnels.

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The Versova–Bandra Sea Link (VBSL), officially Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Sea Link, is an under-construction bridge in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India as a part of Coastal Road Phase-3 or Western Coastal Road. Coastal Road (Mumbai) and Versova–Bandra Sea Link are proposed infrastructure in Maharashtra and transport in Mumbai.

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Wankhede Stadium

Wankhede Stadium (pronounced ʋaːnkʰeɖe) is an international cricket stadium in Mumbai, India.

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Western Freeway (Mumbai)

The Western Freeway was a proposed controlled-access highway in Mumbai, India that would stretch from Marine Drive in South Mumbai to Kandivli in the north, a distance of 29 km. Coastal Road (Mumbai) and Western Freeway (Mumbai) are Expressways in Maharashtra and roads in Mumbai.

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Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for protection of plants and animal species.

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Worli

Worli (ISO: Varaḷī, ʋəɾ(ə)ɭiː) is a locality in central Mumbai in Maharashtra, India.

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See also

Expressways in Maharashtra

Proposed expressways in India

Proposed infrastructure in Maharashtra

Roads in Mumbai

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_(Mumbai)

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