MUMBAI: In what might come as a breath of unpolluted air for a town starved of open areas, Bandra’s Mount Mary house is set to get a revamped tree-lined pathway with an area for leisure activities.
Residents, along side the local corporator, have already began work on re-doing the connector pathway from reverse St Stephen’s Church, along Mount Mary Road, which could have a touchdown at Dr Peter Dias Road. According to the proposed design, the connector, spread throughout an area of 17,000 squaremetres, could have a flight of steps that can wreck at a mid-landing into a central collecting house where residents can host group occasions and leisure activities.
Assistant municipal commissioner of H-West ward Sharad Ughade mentioned the revamped pathway might be especially beneficial during the annual Mount Mary truthful when devotees throng the Basilica.
Local Aakif Habib mentioned few people used the previous path, which had a few steps, even though it was once a shortcut between St Stephen’s Church and Dr Peter Dias Road. Also, the pathway had was a dump yard. Maria D’Souza, chairperson of the Mount Mary Kane Road advanced locality management (ALM), informed TOI, “As the stretch was once too steep, now not many of us used it. So, we determined to spruce up the world. To our advantage, the entire pathway has a inexperienced duvet.”
Corporator Asif Zakaria mentioned he were following up the work for the reason that previous few years. “A street was once marked right here in the construction plan, however because the stretch was once found to be too steep, it could now not be applied,” he mentioned. “We then proposed to construct small steps and make the most of the stretch in this type of method that shall we create an open house for leisure activities too.”
Architect Alan Abraham of Abraham John Architects, who has designed the connector, mentioned, “The earlier stretch was once as steep as a five-storey construction made it tough for use. By construction stairs, we need to make the pathway accessible.” Anca Abraham, who has also labored on the design, mentioned that is an attempt to create but some other open house for the world.
Residents, along side the local corporator, have already began work on re-doing the connector pathway from reverse St Stephen’s Church, along Mount Mary Road, which could have a touchdown at Dr Peter Dias Road. According to the proposed design, the connector, spread throughout an area of 17,000 squaremetres, could have a flight of steps that can wreck at a mid-landing into a central collecting house where residents can host group occasions and leisure activities.
Assistant municipal commissioner of H-West ward Sharad Ughade mentioned the revamped pathway might be especially beneficial during the annual Mount Mary truthful when devotees throng the Basilica.
Local Aakif Habib mentioned few people used the previous path, which had a few steps, even though it was once a shortcut between St Stephen’s Church and Dr Peter Dias Road. Also, the pathway had was a dump yard. Maria D’Souza, chairperson of the Mount Mary Kane Road advanced locality management (ALM), informed TOI, “As the stretch was once too steep, now not many of us used it. So, we determined to spruce up the world. To our advantage, the entire pathway has a inexperienced duvet.”
Corporator Asif Zakaria mentioned he were following up the work for the reason that previous few years. “A street was once marked right here in the construction plan, however because the stretch was once found to be too steep, it could now not be applied,” he mentioned. “We then proposed to construct small steps and make the most of the stretch in this type of method that shall we create an open house for leisure activities too.”
Architect Alan Abraham of Abraham John Architects, who has designed the connector, mentioned, “The earlier stretch was once as steep as a five-storey construction made it tough for use. By construction stairs, we need to make the pathway accessible.” Anca Abraham, who has also labored on the design, mentioned that is an attempt to create but some other open house for the world.
New and improved green pathway in Mt Mary area
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