Repair enactment underway connected Kasheli Creek span connected the Mumbai-Nashik Expressway. (Courtesy: MMRDA)
Commuters travelling connected the Mumbai-Nashik Expressway this Sunday should brace for imaginable delays arsenic the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) volition beryllium undertaking indispensable repairs connected the Kasheli Creek bridge. The span serves arsenic a important nexus connected the expressway, facilitating conveyance question betwixt Mumbai, North Maharashtra, and further towards North India.
An MSRDC authoritative confirmed that each indispensable postulation permissions person been secured, and enactment is acceptable to statesman astir 9 am.
“One lane of the span volition stay closed portion repairs are underway, but we person not imposed immoderate restrictions connected wide postulation movement,” the serviceman stated.
The Kasheli Creek bridge, portion of the aged National Highway 3 (Agra–Bombay Road), has been nether scrutiny since January 18, erstwhile a conception of its median collapsed. Despite the damage, officials person assured that the operation remains harmless for commuters.
The span is simply a cardinal entree way for vehicles travelling to and from Bhiwandi, a large logistics hub. The affected portion—a 30-metre conception of the median—belongs to an further operation built successful 1985.
Currently, the four-lane span accommodates two-way traffic. However, erstwhile a caller parallel span is completed, the existing operation volition grip Thane-bound traffic, portion the caller span volition service vehicles heading toward Nashik and beyond.
The caller span is portion of a broader Rs 1,000-crore enlargement task for a 23.5-km agelong of the Mumbai-Nashik highway, initiated successful 2022. As of now, 70 per cent of the caller span is complete, with the Kasheli Creek conception accounting for Rs 100 crore of the full budget.
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