Flyover work makes fliers miss flights

Passengers have been facing a major hurdle in their path to the domestic terminal at Santa Cruz. The reason being — work on the Rs17 crore flyover at the Santa Cruz and Vile Parle junctions on the Western Express Highway.
The flyover is being built by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation on behalf of the MMRDA to minimise traffic congestion at the two junctions.
But until the flyover gets ready — the scheduled date of completion is May 2008 — air passengers are spending a lot of time crawling through traffic jams to reach their departure points.
Last Thursday, Tejpal Jain, 27, and his wife Sudarshana from Mira Road had to miss an early morning GoAir flight to Jaipur. “We left home at 5am so that we could reach on time,” says Jain, a financial analyst. By 5:40am the Jains reached Andheri station and took a taxi for the domestic terminal at Santa Cruz. On reaching the airport we got to know that we had missed our flight.”
30/01/08 Naveeta Singh & Chittaranjan Tembhekar/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Jan 2008