Mumbai bridge stuck for 3 yrs to finally take off

In a city increasingly defined by traffic gridlock, bridges are rising — sleek, soaring and reshaping the way Mumbai moves.

- Sabah Virani

The BMC has more than 20 bridges in the pipeline. In this series, HT examines these bridges, their costs, their impact and how they will transform commuting in Maximum City

Three years after an additional bridge between Andheri West and Goregaon West was given the go-ahead, work on it is yet to begin.

Awaiting permission from the Bombay high court which rolled in this May, things can now pick up speed—except for a hindrance by way of 2,500 slum tenements coming in the way.

The BMC is, however, prepared with a plan to get the bridge work started off in August.

The ₹499.20 crore bridge, another cable-stayed bridge that the BMC is adding to its roster, will begin at the slum-populated Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar in Goregaon West, go over the Goregaon creek at its banks and land at Masjid As Salam Chowk in Millat Nagar, Andheri West.