Reportedly, residents of Dadar demand for removal of fish market in Senapati Bapat Marg.
Number of fish vendors put their stalls on the road after the BMC market was demolished couple of years ago. According to locals, now with the Elphistone Bridge shut, the traffic jams in Dadar-Parel areas has multiplied, and the fish vendors on the road is addition to the chaos, locals say.
Residents of nearby societies, including Swarajya CHS located next to the fish market held a meeting on Thursday evening on the issue and will meet G-North ward officer Vinayak Vispute on Friday. Their main demand is to permanently remove the fish market from Senapati Bapat Marg.
As per Dadar based Civic Activist Chetan Kamble, the Elphinstone Bridge demolition has already thrown Dadar–Parel–Prabhadevi into unprecedented gridlock, choking emergency routes and daily life. And now, instead of easing the congestion, the BMC G-North ward plans to restart the very same fish market on Senapati Bapat Marg earlier demolished owing to traffic chaos.
However, according to Manish Valanju, Aasistant Municipal Commissioner, they are aware about the traffic chaos in the area and have decided to shift the fish market. The fish vendors will be shifted to the plotting nearby reserved for parking. Once the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Market (Crawford market) gets ready
Concerns Over Traffic and Emergency Routes
Reintroducing illegal fish markets on a main road at a time when hospitals like KEM, Tata, Wadia, and Global are struggling with ambulance delays is nothing short of criminal negligence.
The priority should be traffic management, relocation of market to the newly reconstructed Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Market,” Kamble said.
But, the market is not fully ready yet and it will take at least 1 and half to two years to be ready for occupation.
News Edit KV Raman
