Construction on one of the two new bridges coming up on Thane Creek in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, will be finished by May 2024. The second bridge will be ready in September, a few months later, Maharashtra PWD Minister Dada Bhuse said.
The two bridges, with three lanes each, are coming up on either side of the current structure, which is heavily patronised and was the second to be built on the creek in 1995 after the first one in 1971, he said. After both the new bridges are ready, there will 12 lanes in all, which will give great relief to ever increasing traffic, Bhuse said after inspecting the site and progress of work.
The traffic between Navi Mumbai and Mumbai keeps increasing, and the widening of the Sion Panvel highway, an arterial route between the two cities, has made the second Thane Creek Bridge (TCB2) a bottleneck, a Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation official said. The Thane Creek Bridge 3 coming up now is 57 per cent complete. It is 3.147 kilometres in length and is being built at a cost of Rs 755.55 crore, he added.