The BandraWorli Sealink

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The Bandra-Worli Sealink
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The Bandra- Worli Sea Link

• INAUGURATION June 30, 2009
• Landmark for Mumbai city
• Among the most complex advanced construction
  projects ever in India
• Major project in Mumbai metropolitan region after
  Mumbai-Pune expressway

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Project

• Sea link project conceived in the 1990s
• Plagued by PILs- fishermen environmentalists
• 2004- Work started
• But drastic changes to 80 of the bridge design
• Cost escalation from Rs 350 crore to Rs 1,306
  crore to Rs 1,634 crore
• MSRDC project
• Executed by Hindustan Construction Company
• Illumination by Bajaj Electricals, Rs 9 crore

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Location

• Built over the Mahim Bay
• Connects Bandra(suburb) to Worli(central Mumbai)
• 8-lane-wide
• Sea link length- 5.6-km, 3.8 km over the sea

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Facts

• Height of the cable-stayed tower 43-storey
  building
• Weight 50,000 African elephants
• Steel wire used circumference of the earth
• Cement used- 90,000 tons
• 16 lanes toll plaza, at the Bandra end

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How the Sea-Link Helps

• Additional connectivity from city to suburbs
• Reduces travel time from 1 hour to only 7
  minutes
• Decongests Mahim Causeway- 125,000 vehicles a day
• Avoids 29 traffic lights
• Save Rs 100 crore a year in vehicle operating
  costs

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Problems Perceived

• Major traffic snarls at Worli, no solution
  figured out
• Additional congestion on SV road and across
  Lilavati Hospital
• Toll proposed- Rs 50 oneway, may dissuade a few
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Landmark

• Hot tourist spot
• Key destination in 'Mumbai Darshan' package
• Special open BEST buses between BKC Worli sea
  face
• 8-lane bridge, with 2 dedicated bus lanes

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Mini-UN

• Engineering team from  
• China, Egypt, Canada, Britain, Serbia,
  Switzerland, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong,
  Indonesia and Philippines worked on the project

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