BMC completes girders installation on t-shaped flyover in Mumbai’s Malad; likely to become fully operational in January

“The last motorboat of the girders was completed during the intervening nighttime of Thursday (November 14) and Friday (November 15). Now, that the girders are installed, enactment connected making the asphalt roads volition beryllium taken up, followed by waterproofing works, which is apt to instrumentality much than a month. We expect to unfastened it for postulation by the archetypal week of January,” said an official.

This flyover originates adjacent the Girdhar Park Bridge, which passes supra the Malad Creek and extends supra the Mith Chowky postulation junction. The eastbound landing is adjacent the St Joseph’s school, from wherever vehicles tin determination further towards Malad presumption and Western Express High (WEH) and the south-bound limb volition driblet astatine Link Road, from wherever motorists tin instrumentality the way towards Andheri, Juhu, and the airport.

With the elevated north-south Mumbai Metro 2-A enactment passing supra this bridge, the 800-meter flyover volition lone cater to two-wheelers and airy centrifugal vehicles (LMV), with the introduction for buses and dense vehicles restricted.

The thought of constructing a flyover successful this junction was floated successful 2014. However, the task didn’t spot the airy of time owing to the announcement of the metro project, and amid the ambiguity astir the tallness of the elevated metro bridges. Therefore, BMC waited for the metro enactment to go operational, pursuing which the enactment connected this caller flyover was initiated.