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Mumbai News:  After over two years, Mumbai motorists on the Western Express Highway (WEH) may now finally exhale in relief as their awful traffic conditions are over. The barricades erected on the highway have been removed, and the work to extend the Akurli subway at Kandivali is almost finished.

The highway's northbound roadway was reduced to two lanes due to the barriers, causing traffic jams for vehicles heading from Bandra and south Mumbai to the western districts of Borivali and Dahisar.

During rush hour, police would open two more lanes on the other side to relieve the congestion. At Kandivali, this temporary fix also causes traffic jams on the southbound highway.

Drivers heading towards Borivali would lament that, depending on the time of day, it took them anything from twenty minutes to an hour to cover the 1.5–2 kilometre section between Malad and Kandivali. The main problem, they said, was the junction at Samata Nagar Police Station.

The Akurli subway, which links Kandivali station to the highway and the residential area of Lokhandwala, is being widened by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).

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According to MMRDA, the unexpected discovery of a gas pipeline on the Borivali side of the subway caused delays in the project's development. To finish the construction, the 300 mm diametre pipeline that serves regions from Dahisar to Bandra had to be shifted.

Earlier this month, the work site was inspected by MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar, MMRDA officials, local residents, and union minister Piyush Goyal, who was just elected as the MP for Mumbai North.