- Despite being touted as an 8-lane road, the BWSL only consists of 4-lanes as of now. In fact, construction of the other 4 lanes is far from being complete as this photo of the exit at Worli clearly shows.
- Cranes are still there on the Central Tower and the two smaller towers. Work is obviously in progress here.
- Dispersal at Worli will remain a problem. Today, we had to go to the opposite end of Worli Sea Face road to take a U-turn and drive back to South Mumbai. Hopefully this arrangement is only for today and there will be a direct right turn at the exit point itself.
- Keeping the speed limit at 50kmph pretty much kills the point of such a bridge. Doubt it will be adhered to.
- Without a Worli-Haji Ali-Nariman Point link, this is just one part of the Western Freeway project. It will only benefit those who live/work around Bandra/Worli. For everyone else, they will only move faster from one traffic jam to another.
But for whatever it's worth, this is a significant event in Mumbai's creaking infrastructure saga. 3 photos below show the journey to this road.
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mm - the big RGSL is up and running finally and as per first mover info from straying around and confirmed by rediff (http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/jul/01/slide-show-1-traffic-jam-on-sea-link-on-day-1.htm) there are serious starting troubles.
one of the points never discussed is the cable stay design.
i was told by a civil engg friend (ships, shoes and sealing wax - www.choultry.blogspot.com) that this tech is used in situations where the span has to be raised and lowered to accommodate sea faring traffic.
and i recall reading on the 'official' website that this tech has been adopted because of sea faring traffic into the mahim bay.
am now unable to locate this detail online.
i feel that they could have done a simple vashi type bridge at 1/5th of the cost :-) but then how will the MPs and MLAs fund their next campaign ;-)
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Good to see the world talking about the newest marvel, Mumbai owns now. Liked your post and images. I clicked this sea link image during the laser show - http://tinyurl.com/mk5jm9. I hope you guys like it.
Hi,
I am using your photo of the sea link in our Sunday magazine, Mirror (of Herald Publications, Goa).
Hope you do not mind it.
You can visit us on our website:
www.oheraldo.com
But Sunday Mirror pages are not on the website. Sorry!
We have a weekly column Mumbai Matters written by Arvind Pinto from Mumbai, and I am using your image for this column, this week.
Thanks.
Bharati Pawaskar
Features Editor
Herald, Goa
heraldmirror@herald-goa.com
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