The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to close the key connector bridge between Andheri east and west for at least two years

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has asked police to immediately shut Gokhale Bridge, an east-west road connector over Western Railway tracks in Andheri, for vehicular traffic, a senior official told PTI Thursday (Pic/Nimesh Dave)
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The process of shutting down the Andheri bridge will begin next week (Pic/Nimesh Dave)

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Presently only two lanes of the bridge are functional and work on the new lanes, except on the railway portion, is on but at a very slow pace. But even though just two lanes are functional, it is helpful to residents as this is a key east-west connector (Pic/Nimesh Dave)
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The work of reconstruction of the existing Gokhale Bridge at Andheri (Municipal Portion) is in progress by the appointed contractual agency M/s SMS Limited. At present half of the bridge towards the north side is demolished and construction of the same is in progress (Phase-I) File Pic
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