Updated On: 26 January, 2024 04:22 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Sion-Panvel Highway to stay open, no vehicles allowed on Palm Beach Road

Navi Mumbai traffic police personnel monitor motorists near Kolkhe village in Panvel on Thursday. PIC/PRASUN CHOUDHARI
The weekend will start from Friday for most. But if you are planning to go on a trip, please check the advisory issued by the Navi Mumbai traffic police before stepping out. Alternative routes have been created across the city as lakhs of Maratha reservation activists are scheduled to reach Navi Mumbai and then Mumbai’s Azad Maidan where activist Manoj Jarange-Patil plans to go on a hunger strike.
Milind Bharambe, commissioner of police, Navi Mumbai, said the protesters were about to reach Navi Mumbai on Thursday evening and advised citizens to the Navi Mumbai police’s X handle to get updates about roads that have been shut and their alternatives. The protesters will halt at the APMC market in Sanpada on Thursday, where they will stay the night. To avoid any traffic in the Navi Mumbai city and on the Sion Panvel highway.