REVISED MASTER PLAN

FOR

VASHI NODE

Name : Aditya a. pungavkar

IIT kharagpur
Year 2010.
1.0 Introduction

Navi Mumbai development began in post 1970 across the Thane creek. Mumbai city has serious limitations
of availability of space. It is essentially an island city with very little additional area availability for growth.
This started to create tremendous pressure on Social infrastructure and utilities. This also resulted in
congestion and loss of quality of life for the city occupants. Therefore, a new planned city was expected to go
a long way towards bringing about sustained economic development of Mumbai city that would help sustain
the economic growth. This new city was expected to attract people from the Greater Mumbai and
surrounding areas to a city with better quality of life. In addition, new types of industries and business could
be set up in this new city. Navi Mumbai had to be a city of 21st Century establishing new standards of
planned development.

Objective of Navi-Mumbai project was to

•Reduce the growth rate of population in Greater Mumbai

•To absorb immigrants who would otherwise flood Mumbai and additionally was to attract
some of the present Mumbai population.

•Envisaged Navi-Mumbai as a center for tertiary sector (services) or white-collar employment.

Navi Mumbai (formally New Bombay)
It is 4/5th the size of Greater Bombay and has an
industrial area of ¾th that of Greater Bombay
Industrial area.

•The city is planned for a population of 2.0 millions.

•At present the population of Navi Mumbai has
reached 1.6 millions.
•As such the city can hold a maximum population of
4.0 millions.
•It is worlds’ largest systematically planned modern
city with beautiful landscapes.

•A series of fourteen self-contained nodal settlements

along the mass transport corridors with residential,
business and commercial areas.

•Each node is self sufficient in educational, health,

social, religi0ous, cultural, sports and recreational
facilities
 •On 17th March, 1971 with CIDCO having
started functioning, a new city dawned on the
344 Sqkm horizon.

•The area where 95 villages existed was

carved out 14 nodes. These nodes are as
follows
• Airoli
• Ghansoli
• Koparkhairan
• Vashi
• Sanpada
• Nerul
• CBD Belapur
• Kharghar
• Kalamboli
• Jui Kamothe
• New Panvel
Map of mumbai • Dronagiri.
• Ulwe
• Pushpak
2.0 Vashi

•It is one of the best developed nodes of

navi Mumbai due to its location and offers
all that is excepted from business and
commercial capital of the future.

•It is one of the Two nodes that directly

connect the Mumbai across the Thane-
Creek (Via Mankhurd-Vashi Bridge).

•Vashi node is planned on 854.31 Ha of

land.

•Vashi ensures an even distribution of

residential areas, job centers, social and
health facilities. It houses most modern
international InfoTech park, wholesale
agriculture produce market and state-of-
the-art vishnudas bhave auditorium.

•It is located along the thane creek bridge

on northern side of sion-panvel
expressway. It has a population of 2.25
lacs.
Google image for vashi node
 3.0 Objectives behind planning

•Each node was to be self-

contained with its own facilities of
school, shopping areas and other
essential services.

•The nodes would be strung out on

mass transport axes such that node
residents would have a stop within
walking distance.

•The adjacent nodal distance was

to be about 1 kilometer or the
optimal distance for a mass transit
stop.

Google image for vashi node with important landmarks.

Master plan for vashi node.
MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN VASHI.
4.1 Agricultural Produce Marketing Corporation
(A.P.M.C) at Vashi

•The centralized wholesale market APMC was established

and commissioned in Vashi in 1993 to cater the needs of
Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
•Grains, rice, wheat, fruits, oil, vegetables etc. are available
in APMC. This is the biggest and cheapest agricultural
produce market of the twin cities.
•The shops are arranged categorically. There are four
markets in the A.P.M.C, located in sector 19.

Phase-I, Market-I: Onion and Potato Market.

Phase-I, Market-II: Fruit and vegetable market
Phase-II, Market-I: Commodity market
Phase-II, Market-II: Grains, rice and oilseed market.

Area: 160 Ha.

Commissioned: In 1993
Trucks handled: 4000/day
4.2 Truck and Rail Link Terminal
•As huge number of commercial vehicles is needed to
bring in and move out the produce, their orderly parking etc
is very essential.

•A truck terminal of 8.5 Ha has been provided for this

purpose in APMC area. In addition, for the commodities
and produce that are moved by the rail, a Railway goods
yard of 18 Ha has also been made.

•Daily 500 trucks parked in terminal, trucks usually carry

goods from highway arrives in to terminal. It is located
along the main palm beach road adjacent to sector 19.

4.3 International InfoTech park (I. I. P.) Vashi, Navi

Mumbai
•The International Infotech Park is the most wonderful and
famous landmark of Navi Mumbai. Its situated in sector
30A of vashi and built with FSI of 3.00.

•The Infotech Park was inaugurated on 14th June, 1998.

•The International Infotech Park [IIP] has proved to be a

star attraction for international as well as national
companies.
4.4 Malls and Shopping Centres
•Vashi, Nerul, Kopar Khairane, and Airoli, have been acknowledged as ‘main shopping centers of Navi
Mumbai’ with a number of outlets of furniture, jewellery, textiles, footwear, cosmetics, consumer durables,
luggage and automobile showrooms.

•Sects 9 and 10 along the main road are also major commercial and retail areas. Number of prominent
showrooms are Force Motors, Tata Motors and MRF Tyres in Sect – 1, VIP Luggage and Cambridge shop in
Sect 11.
•Major super markets in this node are APMC Market, Food Bazaar in Sect- 30A, Mangal Deep Shopping
Centre in Sect-17, Mega Mart in Sect28 and Richie Rich Departmental Stores in Sect-17.

•The prominent brand shops include those of Adidas, Reebok, Woodlands, Bata, Raymonds, Cambridge,
Sanskriti, Allen Solly, Green City, Princess, Palak, Mangaldeep, Benzer, Dulhan. etc. in Sect 17 of Vashi.

•It also has Big Splash Centre housing Fashion shops. Jewellery shops include Orra Diamonds and Titan.
Sect 19 of Vashi is also a host to Furniture show rooms such as Wonder woods, Touchwoods, Style Spa
Furniture, Living Room and Colorz Furniture.
4.5 Restaurants
Chenab in Sect-8, Golden Punjab in Sect-17, Hotel Abbott
International in Sect-2 , Hotel Bhagat Tarachand in Sect-18,
Hotel Navratna in Sect-17 Kobe Sizzlers in Sect-8, Hotel
Days Inn Sect-19A, Red Chilli Peper Restaurant in Sect-
28, Hotel centre point, Devi’s Residency, Shikara, Appetite,
Aangan Restaurant, Nanumal Bhojraj Restaurant, Bakers
Treat Restaurant, Hotel Trimurti, Kake Da Dhaba, Cactus
Restaurant in Sect-17, Chaat Café Plaza in Sect-8, Mostly
Liquid, Bombay Blue Restaurant, Garam Masala
Restaurant, Viscious Circle, etc are some of the popular
restaurants and hotels.
Fast food: Food Court at Sect. 30, Khaasiyat fast food in
Sect-28, Mc Donald’s in Sect-17, Café Coffee Day,
Barrista, Kobe’s sizzler, Domino’s Pizza and Quality
Frankie are some of the fast food joints.

Bakers & Confectionaries: Croissants in Sect-17, Front

Bakery and Monginis

Sweets: Jhama sweets, Srikrishna sweets and Bikaner in

Sect 17 and Brijwasi.
4.5 Health facilities
•Vashi node has about 25 hospitals. The prominent amongst
these are NMMC hospital in sector 9, Lakshadeep Hospital
in sector 9A, PKC hospital in sector 15A, MGM hospital in
sector 4, Apollo clinic in sector 12 and Employee State
Insurance Hospital in Sector 5 and Shree Hospital and
ICCU centre in sector 17, Agrawal Nursing home in sector
17 and Agrawal Hospitaland Trauma care in sector 10,
Pareek’s Nursing home and ICCU in sector 17.

•Amongst the other specialty clinics are Bombay City Eye

Care and Research Centre in sector 17, Surya Netralaya in
sector 17 and Yewale’s Child Hospital in sector 9. JVP
Blood and transfusion centre in sector 17 serves to a large
number of hospitals. Navi Mumbai Animal Clinic is a well
known veterinary hospital in sector 16.

4.6 Educational facilities

The important Primary and High schools in Vashi are
Anjuman-E-Islam (sector-10A),
Father Angel School (sector- 10A),
ICL High School (sector 16A),
St. Lawrence High School (sector-16A),
Vashi English School (Sector-28),
ModernSchool (Sector-7),
Navi Mumbai High School (Sector-1),
Sacred Heart High School (Sector- 4),
St. Mary’s School, Timber Land, Blooming Buds, etc.
4.7 Security and police presence
While the streets and communities are patrolled by the
police the major permanent security facilities located within
the nodes are as follows.
Vashi has a main police station located in sector 3. Three
other smaller police chowkies located in sectors 12, 15 and
19 fall within the jurisdiction of the above main police
station. Vashi police stations also cover Sanpada node.

4.8 Ethnic centres and places of cultural interest

In the Vashi node there are over 14 ethnic cultural centers in
Sector 9. Sector 8 has one mosque, Sector 10 has St. Mary
Church and Sector 29 has a Swami Narayan
temple.There is an Ayyappa temple in Sector 8 at a walking
distance from the Vashigaon stop on the highway. Apart
from this, there are temples of Durga, Murugan, Ganapathy,
Siva and Navagraha.

4.9 Entertainment & Recreation

Modern cineplexes are due to open as part of the
aforementioned City Center, Raghuleela, Inorbit, Palm
Beach Galleria,Little World, Glomax, Prime Mall,
Centurian, Dreams, Fanatasia and Tiara malls. Vishnudas
Bhave auditorium in Sector 16A of Vashi admeasuring 0.51
Ha. With 1200 seats capacity is a major auditorium where
music concerts, drama and dance and other cultural
programmes are held. This auditorium is tipped as the
cultural centre and jewel of Navi Mumbai.
4.10 Fitness Centres
The Vashi Node is particularly endowed with a number of such facilities. These include Navi Mumbai Sports
Association (NMSA). This is a well equipped large sports club built over a 5 Ha area. It is one of the largest
sports club and has various Sports Facilities like Tennis, Carrom, Badminton, Chess, Swimming and Squash.
The Navi Mumbai Merchant Gymkhana located in sector 14, Gracilite Fitness, Body Zone, Fitness Point and
Talwalkar’s Gymnasium in sector 17 are well patronized. Knight Gym is in sec-29. Marine Centre club, Patil
Gynmasium in sec-5 Vashi Gymkhana, Vikas krida Mandal in sec-15 and Prayas Health Club are also
available in this node.
4.11 Public Gardens and Parks.

Chintaman Rao Deshmukh,Savarkar Garden and

Alliance Nursery,in Sector 8, Bhaurao Patil Garden in
Sector 1 and Play Garden in Sector 15 of Vashi Node.

A strip of land in Vashi along the coast of Thane creek

has been developed as a park and is popularly known
as the "Mini Seashore" or "Seaside Park".

The park is separated from the creek by a large holding

pond, which is surrounded by a path that is used as a
walking/jogging track. Residents of Vashi and nearby
nodes frequently use this area for recreation, relaxation
and exercise.

Its also called Mini Seashore.

 Norms

Area
Sl. No. Land - Use Category No. of units reqd. @ No. of Existing/ Area
Area in Ha / Total Area Area Provided Balance
Population Unit Area/ Capita (sq. m) population of 156345 units required Provision required
Unit required (ha) (ha) per Capita Units
(1.56 lakhs) (say) (No. of Units) (ha)
(as of now)

I
Educational Standard

Schools 10,170 0.40 0.39 15.4 15 15 5.64 0.36 0

1 6.00
Degree Colleges 125,000 1.00 0.08 1.3 2 2 1.70 0.11 0
2 2.00
Professional Colleges 125,000 2.00 0.16 1.3 2 3.40 0.22 0
3 2 4.00
Residential Schools 600,000 5.00 0.08 0.3 0 0 0
4
University City 50.00 0 0 0
5
II
Health Standard

Up to Nursing Homes 25,000 0.15 0.06 6.3 7 4 0.32 0.02 3 0.45

1 1.05
Hospital 100,000 0.50 0.05 1.6 2 2 1.18 0.08 0
2 1.00
Super Specialty 250,000 2.00 0.08 0.6 1 0 0.00 1 2.00
3 2.00
Religious 10,000 0.15 0.15 15.6 16 1 0.05 15 2.25
III 2.40
Cultural
IV
Cultural & Linguistic 100,000 0.60 0.06 1.6 2 1 0.08 0.01 1 0.60
1 1.20

2 Community Centers 100,000 0.20 0.02 1.6 2 0.40 2 0.20 0.01 0

Central Library 2,000,000 4.00 0.02 0.1 0 0 0

4 0.00
Auditorium 400,000 0.40 0.01 0.4 0 0 0
5 0.00
Indoor Recreation 100,000 0.30 0.03 1.6 2 2 4.30 0.28 0
6 0.60
Institutional
V
1
Professional, Scientific & Other
100,000 8.30 0.83 1.6 2 0 0.00 2 16.60
Institutions
16.60

Working Women's Hostel 100,000 0.30 0.03 1.6 2 0 0.00 2 0.60

2 0.60
Other Hostels 100,000 0.30 0.03 1.6 2 0 0.00 2 0.60
3 0.60
Museums 500,000 2.00 0.04 0.3 0 0 0.00 0
4 0.00
Film Studio City 80.00 0 0
5 0.00
Total 57 22 16.87 26 23.10
38.45
2.3 Infrastructure
Power
NMMC is looking at generating electricity using non-conventional methods of generating electricity like
wind energy as Navi Mumbai is blessed with a long coastline and generating energy from waste which is
collected throughout the node.
Tata Power started supplying power in Navi Mumbai.
Water
•NMMC area is supplied from three sources- Morbe dam, Barvi dam of MIDC and Hetwane dam of
CIDCO. 250-255 MLD water is supplied to NMMC area every day.

•NMMC receives potable water at Shil MBR from MIDC. This water is distributed to Airoli, Ghansoli,
Koparkhairane, Vashi and part of Turbhe nodes through series of GSR-WPS-ESR-Distribution networks.
Sewerage
 Transport
Means of public transport.
Rikshaw
Taxi
NMMT buses
Railways

Its a planned township. Road maintenance

is carried out by the NMMC. Road width
varies from 42.5 mt to 8 mt for different
areas.
Palm beach road 42 m wide running North-
South of node and sion-panvel express
highway running East - West direction.
Railway and highway serves the way for
goods transport of APMC market in vashi

FIG.ROAD NETWORK MAP VASHI NODE

5.0 Some statistics for vashi.
The performance of Vashi can best be proved by such statistical figures obtained by a survey that brings out
the real facts from the ground. Behaviour of population in terms of migration, demographic, and socio
economic trends provide the opportunity at planning level.

Household Characteristics
Total No. of Dwelling Units (in Node): 18,379 units
Constructed: CIDCO – 63%
Pvt. Sector - 37%

Dwelling Units
CIDCO: LIG – 39%, MIG 1-40%, MIG II-15%, HIG-6%
Pvt.Sect.: LIG – 12%, MIG 1-29%, MIG II-36%, HIG-23%
Ownership of Dwelling Units: 81%
CIDCO: Owned- 76%
Pvt. Sect.: Owned- 88%

Population
Present Population: Estd. 2,25,156
In 2005 : 165921 with growth rate of 8.26 (2004-05)
Employment: Estd. 76,553
People residing and working in Navi Mumbai – 54%

Average Growth Rate: 6.16

Population projections for vashi node.

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

176142 186993 198512 210740 223721 228196 232760 237415 242163

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

247007 251947 256986 262125 267368 272715 278170

Migrated people from Mumbai region to vashi.

Ethnic Background Place of Work:

Hindus – 88% Christians – 4% Pvt. Sector – 54% Pub. Sector – 4%
Muslims – 6% Others – 3% Govt. Offices – 18% Industry - 5%
General Caste : 81% Commercial – 10% Others – 8%

Last place of Residence: Economic Profile

Navi Mumbai- 40% Avg. Monthly Household Income Rs.
Shifted from Mumbai- 51% 15,708/-
Other dist. Of Maharashtra – 5% Ownership of Vehicle 56%
Outside Maharashtra – 5%

Avg. Family Size: 3.8

Literacy Rate: Total Literate – 99%.
•Satisfaction Level of the residents:
•Over Basic Infrastructural Facilities –
about 85%
•Over Social Facilities – about 70%
•Over Recreational Facilities – about 80%
Table : Node wise distribution of units by type of establishment
6.0 Trade and commerce at vashi node.

Node Wholesale Retail Service Open

6.1 Wholesale markets
Markets Markets Industry Markets APMC market the wholesale market with units
Airoli - 1513 671 346 5679 and employees aroung 67884, and turnover
Ghansoli - 707 336 900 of 50.42 billion rupees.
KoparKhairane - 1628 671 674

Vashi 5679 5672 2014 1257

6.2 Trends of Arrivals of Goods/Commodities in
Sanpada - 878 447 382
APM, Vashi
Nerul - 2013 895 1020
•The arrivals of almost all the goods/commodities
Belapur - 916 447 830 showed a downward trend, particularly after 2004 -
Kharghar - 1064 447 515 '05.
kalamboli 2077 1019 559 469 •If this downward trend of commodity inflows
Jui-Kamothe - 519 224 111 continues, the very purpose of wholesale APM and
New panvel - 2202 1007 453
their infrastructure development would get lost.
•In fact, some multinationals and big corporate
Dronagiri - 360 112 20
houses have started procuring the agricultural
MIDC - 1347 447 1670
produce directly from the farmers and transporting
Villages - 4801 1790 2236 it to their retail outlets which remove the role of the
PMC 175 2451 895 1863 middleman/brokers.
UMC - 941 224 340 •The worst affected from this change would be
Total 7931 28031 11187 13086 Mathadi workers for whom Agriculture Produce
Markets are the source of livelihood.
6.3 Retail Markets.
Vashi has the distinction of having largest numbers of seven types of shops in all the nodes and villages of
Navi Mumbai. Among 5171 shops (all types) in Vashi, the maximum number (983) was of
'Food./eatable/restaurant'.
6.4 Service industry
The service industry also known as the tertiary sector of economy forms the backbone of social and economic
development of a city. It has emerged as the largest-growing sector in the world economy,

Percentage distributions of shops / service industry (grouped under each of its four categories)
by type and by location (node / village)
Why there’s need of redevelopment?

•Vashi was first node to be planned in the period of 1970s. it

has been more than 35 years now.

•The earlier development in vashi was very slow, the people

from CIDCO had to convince the people for buying the
plots. In 1993 the railways came in and the rate of
development suddenly went up.

•Over the period of time the commercial activities grew

much faster dominating the residential neighborhood
environment.

•The increasing population increasing the load on

infrastructure. Problems related with traffic, parking, sewage
disposal, flooding during rains resulting in to loss of primary
objectives of planning and neighborhood environment.

•To counter this another strategy needs to be planned for

better life of people in years ahead
7.0 Land use in vashi node
%
USE AREA IN HA.
RESIDENTIAL 185.17 22

COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL 4
SOCIAL FACILITIES 53.11 6

INDUSTRIAL 9.98 1

OPEN SPACE 92.39 11

CIRCULATION 183.83 22

PUBLIC UTILITIES 98.33 12

INFRASTR. CORRIDOR 71.41 8

STORAGE 116.2 14

NOT DEVELOPABLE 0
NET DEVELOPABLE 849.42 100

Fig. Land use pie chart at vashi node.

7.1 Issues regarding land use.

1) One of the major issues is misuse of

footpaths and part of the street for
various purposes like
•Hawkers,
•Used as display area by shop owners,
•Parking,
•Used by garages for parking and Behind truck terminal vashi turbhe ink road.
repairing.
These things are common along all
major roads, LIG, EWS and APMC
market areas.
Due to this the actual purpose of
pedestrian movement is not served plus
the streetscape is spoiled.

Along palm beach road.

Vashi turbhe link road.(footpath lack of design) Sector 21(parking along main road)

2) Due to increased potential in various

sectors the residences are used as a
place for commercial purpose it is
prominent in LIG and EWS areas along
the major roads, area which are nearer
to vashi station.

Sector 21(used by
garages)
•7.2 Recommendations:
•Initially parking was not mandatory during building construction. Now for what ever new constructions
the parking should be made mandatory according to proposed use of building.
•To solve existing problems propose multi-storeyed parking
•Near sector 17( Using land along nalas)
•Vashi station(in existing parking lot),
•Near vishnudas bhave auditorium.

•To encourage one point parking fast-easy-cheap local transport system should be developed within node.
•Along major roads and in sectors near station people are using residential ground floor area as
commercial purpose. Instead of controlling this property tax for commercial use at these places should be
high according to different areas and should be updated with regular surveys. This would keep control
such unauthorised land use in LIG, EWS areas.

•To control vending activities on footpaths vending zone or complex should be developed. Such zone
could be developed along coming exhibition center in sector 30A. As currently land prices are soaring in
entire vashi.

•Another idea to control vending is the local people themselves can be used as effective tool. For
instance the shop or house in front of which vendors have came up should be reported to local authority or
he will be fined. such system could be helpful.
•Currently recreation and other public facilities are sufficient for population but not according to future
population to come so need to develop policy
•policy in terms to control growth
•policy in terms to accept the growth
•According to both proper land mobilising model should developed that will include FSI increase and
other incentives.
•If you see the existing development one
will notice the land is scare in Mumbai
specially in node like vashi. So how to
mobilise land for the development? The
planning of vashi node was done during
1980s. the development was like
HIG G+4
MIG G+3, G+2. 1) Sector 1(commercial use of ground floor residences) 2) Sector 17
LIG G+1 (footpath as display area)
EWS G+1 .
We can go for G+3 units in LIG and
EWS areas in sectors like 21,23 ,6,7
with new housing policy to promote
EWS, LIG housing along with private
partnership. New policy must ensure
new layout with much better open
spaces and accessibility. This would
also lower the commercial use of
ground storied residences. Sector 21
 Sector 9 and 10
Sector 9 and 10. Units built by CIDCO are dilapidated and there are demands for building new units with
higher FSI around 3.00 – 4.00.
Actions :
As the fact is building are so old they need to be reconstructed but to attract the investors need to go for high
FSI is must.
If you see the layout of these sectors they are built to be completely residential neighbourhoods with common
open spaces narrow roads with low traffic volume. E.g. you can see in the picture children playing on streets.

•Try to keep the original neighbour hood environment.

•For these calculating the increased traffic after high FSI which will be fecible for the sector to have low
traffic volume.
•Heavy traffic policy with large road widths, and commercial +residential land use, through traffic wont
work.
•At the same time authority may not give FSI hike for 1 plot or building it should be for one group of
buildings for which a proper layout with new site margins and common recreation place should be worked
out such grouping must be done my authority or concerned planner or architect
Revitalisation or redevelopment of APMC market area.
Another major tool or necessity would be revitalisation or redevelopment of APMC market area.
Currently land is scare and it’s a precious commodity when in vashi.
•Its huge area. 120 hectors.
•Need of growing population demands more land.
•The idea would sound vague today but the conditions like decrease in arrivals of commodity in vashi
in successive years are indicating the need for change

Its like the washout of cotton meals from Mumbai in the environment dominated by capitalism and the
worst affected would be again the workers. This place provides employment for nearly 70000 people.
By sensing the future trends and threats and to avoid the repeating of the history

immediate policy level measures to be taken to not to transform APMC according to current trend and
needs. It should also be able to provide some amount of land for the further development of node which can
be achieved by multi-storeyed construction.
Nallas running along the node.
These carry waste and storm water. They are
not maintained in the point of view for
improving streetscape.

Nala along palm beach road

Nallas can be another effective tool for land
mobilisation nalas running through entire vashi.
Success full nala development programme + at
certain places with technical consultation nalas
can be covered with slab and the same can be
used for uses like parking, vending etc. which
are temporary uses but are necessities today. The
sides of nalas can be developed in to good
pedestrian movements and green spaces.
8.0 Transportation
Avg. Travel Expenditure per month: Rs. 1246/-
Avg. Travel Time 27min
The socio economic survey of households in planned nodes was conducted by Kirloskar Consultants in
2005 for NMMC area and travel pattern was established. It was found that work trip accounts for nearly
1/3rd of all trips. Amongst the work trip 24.4% of them are within the same node. The popular nodes in the
study area where origin and destination lie within the node include
Vashi - 6.3%
Nerul - 3.7%
Airoli - 2.4%
Khopar khairane - 2.4%
CBD Belapur - 1.9%
New Panvel - 2.6%
Other - 5.1%
Total - 24.4

Origin Destination Percent of work trips

Koparkhairane - Vashi 3.9%
Nerul - Vashi 2.4%
Ghansoli - Vashi 1.5%
Koparkhairane - Other places in NMMC 1.1%
Sanpada - Vashi 1.0%
Khargar - CBD Belapur 0.9%
Airoli - Vashi 0.8%
Khargar - Vashi 0.8%

Thus Vashi remains the most popular destination.

8.2 Pedestrian facilities

Details of Walkways and Footpaths in NMMC Area (length in ‘m’)

Zone Walkways Footpaths Total

Vashi 1240 10788 12028

SURVAYS OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIN AT FOLLOWING JUNCTIONS

•Near sanpada station

•Shivaji Chowk near Vashi Bus Depot
•Junction under Vashi Flyover on Sion - Panvel Highway
•APMC market Junction
8.3 Existing traffic issues.

1. Following junctions are found to be very crowded and need improvement by grade separation.
•Turbhe link road and Sanpada railway station road (near vegetable market)
•Palm Beach Road and Turbhe link road near Arenga corner.
•North East of ESR near Vashi Gaon Sec 31 to Sterling hospital Sec 6.
•At signalized junction on Sion – Panvel highway opposite to Sanpada railway station. This leads to delay to
traffic on Sion – Panvel highway and also to the cross traffic stream. However this proposal is under
consideration by MSRDC.

2. There is no direct connectivity between Palm Beach road to Sion Panvel highway at the grade separated
junction at Tolani Bridge near I Ahmed cold storage in sec 18. Thus the traffic from Vashi is not able to get
direct access towards Panvel.

3. There is an underpass at Turbhe railway station but this under pass is not connected to other side of Thane
Belapur road.

4. The pedestrian traffic is very high from Sanpada railway station and present width of footpaths is only 2 –
2.5 m which is inadequate.

5. There is disorderly traffic movement on junction at Turbhe (near Centre Point Hotel and Pfizer factory)
Traffic movements are in the directions of Thane, MIDC, Vashi and Belapur. Presently there are no signals
installed at this junction and the traffic movements are very high which leads to congestion and delays.
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7. Parking problem is one of the critical issues in Vashi. In most of the areas on street parking is predominant.
Sector 17 is one of the worst affected areas due to on street parking of private vehicles

8. At the Vashi bus terminal the entry and exit of buses are provided from the same location on Sagar Vihar –
Turbhe road. The same entry and exit creates a lot of traffic congestion and unsafe movements.

9. On Vashi – Kopar Khairane road there is excessively high traffic in both directions. Public buses are also
moving in the same road along with other traffic and get delayed.

10. No proper access to vashi railway station for the residential areas behind the railway station people have
to walk by the nalla under flyover to railway station.
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8.4 Solutions.

Flyovers should be provided at following junctions to avoid traffic congestion

1.Flyover from North East of ESR near Vashi Gaon Sec 31 to Sterling hospital Sec6

2. Development of new road starting at sterling hospital sec 6 in Vashi to Kopar Khairane and further to
Ghansoli and Airoli. This road will another coastal road and will reduce the traffic load from the internal
roads.

3. Flyovers should be provided at following junctions to avoid traffic congestion

•Turbhe link road and Sanpada railway station road (near vegetableMarket) along Turbhe link road
•Turbhe link road and Palm Beach road near Arenga corner along Turbhe link road.

4. Provision of private taxi stand Opposite to Jugaon water tank.

5. Provision of parking by Uplifting the garden and playground in sec 17.

6. There is an urgent need of a flyover on Sion – Panvel road at Sanpada signalized. Junction opposite to
railway station. The flyover can be constructed along the Sion Panvel Highway.
8. The underpass at Turbhe railway station from forecourt of station to other side of thane Belapur road
should be extended.

9. Development of a bridge between Sec 26 at Kopri to Sec 11 of Kopar Khairane. This bridge will develop a
good connectivity between Vashi and Kopar Khairane.

11. There is a necessity of converting the foot over bridge into a foot under bridge near Datta mandir.

12. Provision of RUB from Sector 1 to ‘Samana’ press.

13. It has been observed that the roads are now fully occupied and running to full capacity. Traffic jam is
observed on Vashi –Koparkhairane Link road. To ensure smooth flow of traffic towards Kopar Khairane
adequate parking facility along sector 9 and 10 is required.
Vashi node plan showing locations for proposals.
9.0 Developing water fronts.
Holding ponds and channels are not maintained.

Certain other areas to developed as public places

•The most important gap is holding pond of sector 12
•Sagar vihar water body
•Corner of sector 8 land near old hovercrafts station
•Old holding pond in sector 7
•Total 130 hectors of holding ponds are in vashi
•All holding pond require desilting and draining is
required for nallas.

9.2 Development of Khairane Nalla.

The length of Khairane mall from west to east is approx 3 to 4 km.

Development of nalla
Open concrete nallas are running all across the vashi carrying waste or storm water. Nallas are open and
running along the streets. People hesitate to walk along the pathways abutting the nallas.
Dense plantation between pathway and nalla
Covering the nallas partly and use it as parking space
Urban design solution to develop nallas.

Creek edges to be developed as promenades e.g. Vashi Sec 8.

Thank you.