Nowhere road
(WorldNews Environment)

The Maharashtra government seems determined to deal with Mumbai´s traffic woes by pushing through the coastal road project despite serious environmental concerns. ON July 16, the Bombay High Court quashed the Coastal Regulation Zone clearances given for the construction of the southern section of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, describing the award of clearances as having been carried out with a `lack of proper scientific study`. For the petitioners this was a victory though they realised that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the agency carrying out the project, would approach the Supreme Court, which it did on July 22. A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and...