After a two-year delay, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has sanctioned the widening of the Mankhurd-Ghatkopar link road, and the construction of the city’s first Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS).

Tenders are being floated for the Rs 207.09 crore project; Rs 173.18 crore has been allotted for the BRTS and road-widening. BRTSes — in which buses get exclusive lanes — are either planned or already functional in several cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Pune. A controversial and widely criticised BRTS project in Delhi is currently in limbo after being operational for some years.