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Mumbai: Second tunnel of coastal road to be completed soon
Updated On: 16 May, 2023 07:35 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
Parts of the coastal road are expected to be ready by December
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Work on the coastal road at Haji Ali. Pic/Ashish Raje
The excavation work of the second tunnel of the coastal road will be complete in the third week of May. The work was supposed to be completed by December end last year but the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) got damaged and it took three months to repair it. Under the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, 2.070 km long tunnels are being constructed on both sides between Priyadarshini Park and Girgaon Chowpatty. The excavation of the first tunnel was completed on January 10, 2022 and the work was completed in 364 days. The work on the second tunnel began in April 2022 and was expected to be over by the end of 2022.
After parts of the TBM got damaged, the tunneling work was halted and it resumed in mid-March when the TBM’s spare part finally arrived from Italy. An engineer working on the coastal road said, “Last year, the work of excavation was on at full speed, but after the repair the work is going on at a slow speed with utmost care. The excavation is in the final stage and the second tunnel work will be completed by the third week of May.”
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