Mumbai city's latest landmark


The Bandra Worli Sea Link is an 8-lane, cable-stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, which will link Bandra and the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli and central Mumbai, and is the first phase of the proposed West Island Freeway system. The Rs. 1600 crore ($ 400 Million approx.) project of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) was executed by Hindustan Construction Company. Designs and Project management was by M/s DAR Consultants. The bridge was inaugurated on 1 July 2009. The Sea Link will enable speedy travel between Bandra and Worli, cutting travel times from 45–60 minutes to 15 minutes.


FACT FILE
* First & Unique of its type in Mumbai.
* Project Cost of Rs.1650 Crores (about 330 Million $ US).
* Rs. 9 Crore alone will be just the cost of illuminating the bridge.
* Made with about 38000 KM Long Steel Ropes, 575000 tonnes of Concrete & 6000 Workers.
* Will save about 1 Hour of Travel Time & 100 crores of Vehicle Operating Cost for a 7 KM distance.
* An estimate of about 125000 Vehicles will be using daily.

FEATURES
* An 8-lane bridge with 2 lanes dedicated for buses.
* Unique bridge design for the Link Bridge as a landmark structure in the city.
* Single tower supported 500 metre long cable-stayed bridge at Bandra Channel and twin tower supported 350 m cable-stayed bridge at Worli Channel for each carriageway.
* Modern toll plaza of 16 lanes with automated toll collection system.
* An intelligent bridge with state-of-the-art systems for traffic monitoring, surveillance, information and guidance, instrumentation, emergency support, etc.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

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