Jogeshwari - Vikhroli Link Road

Jogeshwari – Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR)
The JVLR (in purple) linking the Western and Eastern Express Highways (in green).
Route information
Maintained by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
Length:	10.6 km (6.6 mi)
Existed:	1994 – present
Major junctions
West end:	Western Express Highway, Jogeshwari
	Saki Vihar Road in Chandivali LBS Marg in Gandhi Nagar, Vikhroli
East end:	Eastern Express Highway, Vikhroli
Location
States:	Maharashtra
Districts:	Mumbai Suburban
Major cities:	Mumbai
Highway system
Indian road network National Expressways State

The Jogeshwari – Vikhroli Link Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation JVLR, is a 10.6-kilometre-long (6.6 mi) road in Mumbai that links Jogeshwari in the Western Suburbs to Vikhroli in the Eastern Suburbs. The JVLR is an important arterial road connecting the Western Express Highway and Eastern Express Highway. The JVLR was opened to traffic in 1994. At the time, it provided the only direct east–west link between these Express Highways. Prior to 1994, the link road was available for traffic only in segments.

The widening and improvement of the JVLR was taken up under the World Bank-funded Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) in 2002. As a part of the MUTP Road Transport Component programme, the previously 2-lane JVLR was widened to a 6-lane road with a central median. The project was completed in February 2012 at a cost of ₹221.45 crore (equivalent to ₹292 crore or US$45 million in 2016).

The corridor of land adjacent to JVLR on either side is being put to extensive and varied use. As the Iink road is developing into a major network connecting EEH and WEH, the land use pattern along the corridor has undergone a rapid change since it was opened to traffic in 1994. Open and barren wasteland space available in the western and middle sections of JVLR and the marshy land area in the eastern section of JVLR have been converted to residential, commercial and industrial land use pattern, albeit gradually. The entire 10.6 km long JVLR, starting from WEH and ending at EEH, is usually divided into three sections in various study reports, possibly for easy reference and understanding. The sections identified include:

The segment of the JVLR which starts from the WEH junction and ends at the Saki Vihar road junction (near the L&T Factory) is referred to as Section 1 of JVLR. This section being located on the western side is also referred to as the western section of the JVLR. The length of this section is 4.9 km. The original carriageway of the western section of JVLR was a 2-lane road consisting of 7 m wide asphalted carriageway with 2.5m wide shoulders. This was later widened to a 6-lane divided carriageway configuration with a central median. A concrete pavement was also built for the six-lane widened carriageway, and a grade separator was built at SEEPZ road junction. The western section of JVLR passes through a slightly rolling terrain encountering a few steep slopes (max slope being 6.5%).