State’s 140-km Alibaug-Virar corridor to include cycling track

With Mumbai’s first bicycle track to be ready by April, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to create the first inter-city cycling track in the state.

With Mumbai’s first bicycle track to be ready by April, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to create the first inter-city cycling track in the state.

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The MMRDA plans to include a bicycle track on the 140-km multi-modal corridor, which it will build between Virar and Alibaug. A multi-modal corridor is a high-speed transport corridor, which integrates roads, a Metro line, bus and pedestrian infrastructure close to each other.

Once completed, it will mean that people heading to Alibaug can reach a Virar in 75 minutes. The corridor provides for a 30-m wide Metro corridor in the middle, four-lane corridor for the bus rapid transit system and another four-lane corridor for other traffic, five-metre wide pedestrian pathways on either side, seven-metre wide two-lane service roads on either side, 2.5-metre wide parking lane for four-wheelers on either side, 3.5-metre wide lane for two-wheelers on both side and a two-meter path on either side for a bicycle track. The corridor will connect several new and old suburbs on the 140-km stretch between Raigad and Thane districts.

The MMRDA said it is incorporating the bicycle tracks because it wants more people to use greener modes of transport.