On Sunday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis officially opened the northbound bridge that connects the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the Mumbai Coastal Road. Ministers Ashish Shelar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha were in attendance, along with Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
In addition to the bridge, the chief minister also opened three interchanges that would connect cars travelling to places like Lotus Junction, Lower Parel, Worli, and Prabhadevi.
In a statement released on Friday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated that the northbound bridge will be open to the public starting on January 27 and that the coastal road will be open for traffic every day from 7 am to midnight.
Both northbound and southbound traffic were routed on the southbound bridge, which was made public a few months ago, while the northbound bridge was unavailable, it stated.
The northbound bridge is 827 meters long, with a 128-meter access road and 699 meters above the sea.
According to the statement, the bridge has a ‘Bo Arch String Girder’ that is 143 meters long, 27 meters wide, and 31 meters high, weighing over 2,400 metric tonnes.
From Nariman Point to Dahisar, the massive Mumbai Coastal Road Project is being built in stages to offer quicker access from south Mumbai to the northern suburbs.
According to the announcement, the first phase of the coastal route, which spans 10.58 km from Shamal Das Gandhi Marg to Worli-Bandra Sea Link, is over 94% finished.
According to the report, between March 12 and December 31, 2024, over 50 lakh cars travelled the coastal road route, with an average of 18,000–20,000 vehicles daily.
Shinde serves as Mumbai’s guardian minister. Lodha is the co-guardian minister, and Shelar is the guardian minister of the Mumbai suburbs.
Source: The Economic Times
