With 65 per cent of work completed, sea bridge connecting Sewri with Nhava Sheva is expected to be ready by 2023; once ready, it will cut travel time from more than two hours to just over 30 minutes
The project cost is Rs 17,843 crore and 80 per cent of the pier work has been completed
The first ramp of the Sewri interchange got connected to Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) main bridge on Thursday. The work on India's longest sea bridge connecting Sewri with Nhava Sheva is expected to be completed by 2023.
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On Thursday, Metropolitan Commissioner S V R Srinivas inspected the work on the MTHL Project.
Confirming the same, MMRDA, on Thursday, tweeted, “MTHL Pkg-01 team established First connection of Sewri Interchange ramp to MTHL main bridge at MP01 pier location with access on deck top upto MP50 pier location of the Main bridge. Another milestone towards project completion!”
MTHL will feature approach sections, interchanges, intelligence transport system (ITS) and the other amenities required for a sea bridge. The traffic conditions on the stretch will be monitored and managed from the traffic control centre with the help of CCTV cameras and related facilities installed on the stretch.
MTHL has been identified as the important infrastructure to improve the connectivity between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai and continue economic development in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The project cost is R17,843 crore and its 80 per cent pier works are completed till now. Around 65 per cent of the overall project is completed.
The 22-km MTHL project, of which 15.5 km will run over the sea, will be connecting Sewri with Nhava Sheva. It will be a six-lane bridge across Mumbai Harbour. The ambitious project will help solve the traffic congestion in the island city by improving connectivity between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Once completed, as many as 70,000 vehicles are estimated to pass through the bridge daily and will cut travel time from more than two hours to just over half an hour.
The sea bridge will have two interchanges, one at Shivaji Nagar on Sewri end and another at Chirle village near NH-4B.
The sea corridor will also have noise and vision barriers installed on a 6-km stretch, first to block the view of the sensitive BARC nuclear complex and the other to protect the movement of flamingos and other migratory birds at the Sewri mudflats.
70k
Estimated no. of vehicles that will use the bridge daily
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