Peddar Road

View:- Peddar Road area and view from there

Peddar Road is the former name of a busy arterial road in South Mumbai passing through the affluent Cumballa Hill neighborhood.It is said to be resting on what was first known as Padam Hill. Its present name is Gopalrao Deshmukh Marg, after a social activist and reformer (Dr. Gopalrao Deshmukh was the first President of the Indian Medical Association and the first Mayor of 'Bombay' after independence. Peddar Road came to be renamed in his honor). The road begins at the well-known intersection of Kemp's Corner and extends down to Cumballa Hill past the Mahalaxmi temple to the Haji Ali intersection. The very first "flyover" built in Mumbai connected Hughes Road to Peddar Road at Kemp's Corner.It is a posh residential area with some of the flats fetching a price of over Rs.10 million. Some of the buildings here too have a very scenic view of Mumbai. The road ends in a flyover which was known as the Kemp's Corner flyover before but has been rechristened as "Dr Goparao Deshmukh Uddanpul(Flyover)".