LBS Marg
Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg
Also known as LBS Road and Agra Road (old name)
24 km
Open
Maharashtra
City road
Route
LBS Marg runs 24 km from Majiwada, Maharashtra to Sion East, Maharashtra.
Crosses Maharashtra.
Through Majiwada, Thane, Bhandup West, Mumbai and Sion East.
Why it matters
Mumbai is a long, narrow city and everything moves north–south. LBS Marg is the middle one of the three roads that do that, serving the central suburbs that the two express highways miss.
History
Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg runs the length of Mumbai's central suburbs, from Sion up through Kurla, Bhandup and Mulund to Thane. It is the old Agra Road — the land route out of Bombay long before the express highways were built — and it still passes through the industrial belt that grew along it: Kurla's mills, Vikhroli's factories, Bhandup's chemical works. Today it is one of the city's three north–south spines, with a metro line running above much of it.
Good to know
- Follows the alignment of the old Agra Road, Bombay's original land route inland.
- Named after Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966.
- One of Mumbai's three main north–south roads, alongside the Western and Eastern Express Highways.
- A metro line runs on an elevated deck above much of the road.
- It passes through Kurla, Vikhroli and Bhandup — the old industrial belt of the central suburbs.
On the road
Slow at almost all hours — it is a working street with shops, junctions and bus stops, not a bypass. Use one of the express highways for a longer trip.
More details
- Lanes
- 4–6 lanes, with a metro line overhead for much of its length