Install Toilets & Food Vending on Mumbai’s most congested Western Express Highway Imagine being stuck on a protracted highway and not having one toilet or shop available to prevent. Imagine all this while travelling with an ailing or elderly person, this is the story of Mumbai’s Western Express Highway - no food or refuelling stops and highway precautions that discourage stops. Please sign my petition to make sure simple travel for thousands of citizens.
Mumbai’s Western Express Highway (WEH) needs several makeshift Pit Stops. It needs food outlets, refueling, and toilets. the matter is that it doesn’t have any and there's no way you'll park the car on the left side of the road. By the definition of a highway, there are these precautions that a driver must detain mind
Stopping at regular intervals is crucial while on long highway drives, as driver fatigue are often very dangerous, especially at highway speeds. Remember to remain hydrated If you're too drowsy, take a fast nap by the side of the road or swap drivers if you aren’t alone. Also, avoid letting the backlog drop below 1 / 4 tank, as fuel stations is also hard to return by in places. And use a bathroom if nature calls.
Unfortunately with the rapid development of West Mumbai, from Bandra to Dahisar, the highway is now a path to everyone’s office, home, school, and hospital. The traffic has exploded making the highway the foremost used passage. It’s become an inner road and is not any more a highway, however, it needs better infrastructure.
What does a Pit Stop entail - Food services, mobile Refuelling services, Toilets. A long haul journey now affects several people with chronic ailments like force per unit area and Diabetes, who have to relieve themselves by taking a brief break from driving. If you would like to experience prison then being during a car for several hours is enough.
Here is that the Oct 2021 news story on WEH traffic jams by free press Journal - As per the article -
There was a large traffic congestion on the Western Express Highway (WEH) on Wednesday morning between Dahisar and Andheri, resulting in congestion for over 35 minutes, leading to bumper-to-bumper traffic. While traffic police said that the case was the results of some vehicle breakdowns and therefore the ongoing metro work, the congestion was cleared in 90 minutes. However, this clearing out led to slow-moving traffic on the WEH.
The south-bound arm of the WEH was jampacked from Borivli to Malad, said a political candidate. The congestion was attributed to bad roads, the weather and also the rise in traffic of four-wheelers. “There was slow-moving traffic in peak hours, reaching its peak by noon. Traffic police were deployed to clear the traffic and therefore the movement was restored in 90 minutes,” added the official.
The WEH had additional traffic joining in from the entry points of the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road and also the Andheri-Ghatkopar Road, resulting in a bottleneck. Agitated motorists began venting their ire on social media platforms, questioning Mumbai Police and therefore the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for the bad state of roads.
I request you to share and support my cause if you've got experienced this or sympathise with the conditions of a fellow driver / passenger like myself