Mumbai airport undergoes makeover

Mumbai: Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) partially overhauling the domestic terminal currently, its first major city-side upgrade.
Within three months, a new arrivals plaza, verdant landscaping and new traffic patterns are assured. Leighton Asia (Southern) is onboard as contractors for the project.Ravi Punde of Design Cell has been engaged to plan the landscaping of the arrivals plaza, while the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) has done traffic studies on the basis of which the traffic patterns will be altered.
But what will bring the most relief to travellers will be the opening of the 4,100 sq m new arrivals wing, which will help in bifurcation of the arriving traffic.
Meanwhile, the capacity of the taxi parking will almost be halved—from nearly 320 parking spaces for cabs currently; the new taxi stand will have a capacity of only 166. A canopied pedestrian concourse, connecting the arrivals wing to the car park directly, will be created as well.
23/02/07 Lekha Agarwal/Mumbai Newsline

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