Mumbai's Expressway Debacle: A Tale of Two Disasters A recent landslide on the Mumbai Pune expressway has brought to light the Indian government's chronic inability to invest in infrastructure maintenance.
Barely nine weeks after its inauguration, the expressway succumbed to monsoon rains, stranding thousands and forcing a shutdown of both road and rail traffic.
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation claims that debris clearance near the Khalapur toll plaza took three to five hours, with traffic diverted through the Pune bound tunnel while water receded.