[Sample] Bandra-Kurla Complex Transit-Oriented Development Masterplan

Retrofitting Mumbai's Only Planned Business District

Bandra-Kurla Complex, developed from the 1970s onwards on reclaimed land, has grown into Mumbai's most commercially valuable precinct but has done so almost entirely as a car-oriented enclave. The TOD masterplan, commissioned ahead of the opening of Metro Lines 2B and 7 through the precinct, seeks to restructure BKC around pedestrian access to three new metro stations.

The plan proposes a 1.2 km central park spine connecting the Bandra station plaza to the Kurla side of the precinct, flanked by a continuous ground-floor retail interface. Road hierarchies are reconfigured to move through-traffic to the periphery, freeing internal streets for shared pedestrian and slow-vehicle movement.

“BKC is a rare opportunity in Mumbai — a single ownership holding large enough to make a genuinely walkable urban quarter. The masterplan exists to capture that opportunity before land values make change impossible.”

— Lead Planner, Urban Design Research Institute

The plan is currently at draft statutory stage pending MMRDA board approval. If adopted, it will be the first TOD-specific masterplan under Maharashtra's new transit node regulations.