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The aged four-lane span presently accommodates postulation successful some directions.
The aged Kasheli Creek bridge, an important connector utilized by thousands of vehicles regular connected the engaged Mumbai-Nashik Expressway, has been successful the spotlight aft portion of its median collapsed connected January 18. Despite the incident, officials guarantee that the span remains harmless for commuters and vehicles plying connected the operation adjacent arsenic the adjoining caller span is inactive being built and volition lone beryllium completed by June this year.
The large repairs of the aged Kasheli span volition lone beryllium taken up aft the adjoining caller span is completed. The span is portion of the aged National Highway 3, commonly called the Agra–Bombay road, connecting Mumbai to states similar Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Once afloat opened to traffic, it volition besides beryllium a important connector for the Samruddhi Mahamarg (Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway), covering a region of 701 km.
A 625-km agelong of the Samruddhi Mahamarg is unfastened to postulation up to Igatpuri. The remaining 76-km agelong has been completed, but it has not yet opened owed to ongoing enactment connected a 4.2-km agelong that volition link the Samruddhi Mahamarg with the upcoming Vadodara road toward Thane, according to the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).
The Kasheli Creek span is the superior entree way for dense traffic, including commercialized vehicles travelling to and from Bhiwandi, a important logistics hub. The damaged conception of the median, which measures 30 meters, is portion of an further operation built successful 1985. This conception is not portion of the archetypal bridge, which dates backmost to the 1980s. The MSRDC has confirmed that the aged bridge, contempt its collapse, remains structurally sound. However, erstwhile the caller Kasheli Creek span is completed, the aged span volition acquisition large rehabilitation, including slab recasting. Consultants are presently designing the indispensable upgrades, and operation volition statesman erstwhile the caller span is operational.
The aged four-lane span presently accommodates postulation successful some directions. Once the caller span opens, the existing operation volition grip postulation heading towards Thane, portion the caller span volition service postulation going to Nashik and beyond.
This caller span is portion of an ambitious task that includes the expansion of the Mumbai-Nashik highway, which was initiated successful 2022 astatine Rs 1,000 crore for a 23.5-km stretch. Currently, 70 per cent of the caller span is completed. The enlargement task volition outgo Rs 1,000 crore, with the Kasheli Creek span accounting for Rs 100 crore.
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