This refers to ‘A Bridge Too Far’, June 30. The southern terminus of the sea-link at Worli is ill conceived. It should have exited on RG Thadhani Marg that leads to Worli Naka and a flyover at the naka to E Moses Road and one from Keshavrao Khadye Marg to Pedder Road would have made the sea-link viable. Now, as you have rightly said, there will be a big jam at the 90-degree turn on Worli sea-face with traffic backing up at least 100 meters on the bridge. Only Indian babus could have done this. Actually the sea-link should have gone to Nariman Point. But the netas and babus in Malabar Hill and Pedder Road and Nariman Point wanted a quick exit out of the city for themselves and hence the current stupid layout.
The title of your editorial is that of a famous military operation (Operation Market-Garden) which was also made into a movie. The Allied plan was hare-brained and it was conceived to satisfy the ego of Field Marshal Montgomery. Launched as the biggest para-drop operation in military history to capture the bridges across the rivers Waal and Maas at Arnhem and Neijmegen in Holland, it ended in a fiasco with tremendous loss of lives.
T R Ramaswami, Mumbai
