The Dahisar Link Road will be extended to Bhayandar West by the BMC

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is aiming to improve connectivity between Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), plans to build a road between Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar, citing increased public demand. BMC is to construct a 6-kilometer-long, 45-meter-wide road from the existing Dahisar Link Road to Bhayandar (west), which will reduce travel time and traffic congestion on the Western Express Highway's parallel route (WEH). More than Rs 3000 crores are expected to be spent on the project. This will be the sixth road connecting Mumbai to the MMR, running from Dahisar in the west to Bhayander and beyond. Aside from that, the proposed road's alignment runs through mangroves and the Salt Pan area, necessitating environmental permission from the appropriate authorities.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) proposed in 2016 that a missing link road being built between Dahisar (west) and Bhayandar (west), cutting the 10-kilometer commute over the existing Western Express Highway (WEH) in half. The BMC will now be in charge of the project, with the MMRDA footing the cost of a section of the road that falls outside of the BMC's jurisdiction. "This handover process will take at least a month "P Velrasu, BMC's Additional Municipal Commissioner, stated (Projects).

According to BMC officials, Mira-Bhayandar has a population of more than 10 lacs. MMRDA proposed the project in its regional plan, and MMRDA requested that the extension be included in Development Plan 2034. According to BMC's official project note, MMRDA failed to start the project for a variety of reasons. It was earlier made final that the BMC will implement and execute the project with the same consultant, STUP consultant, who had produced the MMRDA project's technical feasibility assessment. MMRDA has also agreed to pass over all of the consultant's technical feasibility papers to MCGM.

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