5 years after floating tender, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) Wednesday set a deadline of October 2026 for the completion of lacking hyperlink challenge between south Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi and Haji Ali, the challenge.
This challenge will comprise a cable-stayed Highway Over Bridge (ROB) and a flyover that may join these two factors together with considered one of metropolis’s busiest visitors junction at Saat Raasta.
These two bridges will present a V-shaped route between Mahalaxmi and Haji Ali by having the Saat Raasta junction on the midpoint.
“At current, the present century-old Mahalaxmi bridge is the one hyperlink to succeed in Worli Haji Ali from Mahalaxmi and with the present visitors load your complete stretch stays congested all through the day. Subsequently, these two new bridges is not going to solely full the lacking hyperlink connection between Mahalaxmi and Haji Ali, however can even set up a direct reference to Saat Raasta as nicely,” stated a civic official.
To be able to ease visitors motion at south Mumbai’s, the BMC in 2019 mooted a proposal of easing the load from the present Mahalaxmi bridge and increasing connectivity to Saat Raasta in the direction of the east, which is able to full the lacking hyperlink between Haji Ali and Mahalaxmi as nicely.
Contemplating the present Mahalaxmi bridge can’t be pulled down with out having a stable different, the BMC proposed building of those two new flyovers. The challenge was cleared by the standing committee and the tenders for a similar had been floated in 2020.
The cable-stayed ROB will originate from Keshav Rao Khadye Marg close to the western facet of the Mahalaxmi station and traverse eastwards above the railway tracks and the drop of the flyover will occur at Saat Raasta.
This ROB might be 803 meters lengthy with 4 vehicular lengths, having a width of 23 meters, whereas the peak from the bottom might be 63 meters.
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In the meantime, the second flyover will originate from Saat Rasta and traverse over the railway tracks and prolong in the direction of the west, lastly dropping close to Dr. E Moses Highway, close to Haji Ali adjoining to the Mahalaxmi Race Course.
This flyover might be 639 meters lengthy and could have 4 vehicular lanes. The civic officers maintained that the alignment of the bridge has been made to make sure minimal injury of the present inexperienced cowl.
The general value of the 2 initiatives have been pegged at Rs 497 crore, with the cable stayed bridge costing Rs 400 crore, whereas the second flyover value Ra 97 crore.
On Wednesday morning a delegation of senior civic officers from the Bridges division carried out an inspection of the location when the October 2026 deadline was finalised.
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Abhijit Bangar, extra municipal commissioner (Tasks) stated {that a} 78-meter lengthy pillar might be constructed to assist the muse of the cable stayed bridge and the development of this pillar might be accomplished within the subsequent seven months. He maintained that concurrently the work of launching and setting up the primary carriageway of the bridge might be taken up by the authorities.
The unique thought of setting up these two flyovers was mooted within the Growth Plan (DP) 2034 mannequin.
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