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Mumbai to get three cable-stayed bridges over rail lines this year
Updated On: 08 January, 2024 02:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
3 projects at various stages of completion at Reay Road, Byculla and Dadar; another recently started at Ghatkopar
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The Byculla bridge is being built at the Kalyan end of the station; (right) Work on the Reay Road cable-stayed bridge is 70 per cent complete
The new year has brought a new template for bridges over rail lines. After the bridge at Gokhale Road in Andheri got Howrah-bridge-like girders, Mumbai is set to get multiple cable-stayed bridges over rail lines. At least three of these should be ready this year.
“The BMC entrusted the Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation (MRIDC) to re-construct dilapidated British-era road overbridges in Mumbai and the suburbs. Considering the tremendous road traffic, in most cases, the MRIDC has planned the new cable-stayed bridges adjacent to the existing ones. Old bridges will be demolished later. A detailed plan has been made in such a way that it causes almost no hindrance even to pedestrian movement,” a senior MRIDC official said.
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