India, July 3 -- More than three years after the Kora Kendra bridge in Borivali was opened to traffic, work on its 880-metre extension, which would take traffic all the way up to the Western Express Highway (WEH), is dragging on. Once complete, its deadline more than a year away, it will connect Link Road in Borivali West to the WEH in the east, exactly where the proposed Borivali-Thane twin tunnels will begin.

Construction on the Kora Kendra flyover began in 2018, a 970-metre stretch connecting the Kora Kendra junction on SV Road and Link Road in Borivali. The Covid-19 pandemic slowed its completion, after which, in 2021, the civic administration decided to extend the bridge to free up Borivali's arterial roads.

After the bridge's land...