Mumbai’s Marine Drive residents witness unusual vibrations

Mumbai’s Marine Drive residents have been feeling unusual vibrations due to the relocation of the ongoing Coastal Road project.The tremors, as per officials, were especially felt inside Shree Niketan and Gobind Mahal buildings, located between the G and F roads in Marine Drive, which are near the Coastal Road work site.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is constructing the 10.58-km coastal road project, for which it had to relocate a large number of tetrapods between the Princess Street flyover and Worli Sea Face.The residents have also written to municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal and additional municipal commissioner, Ashwini Bhide, who is in-charge of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP).A BMC official said the complaints from individual buildings would be verified.