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Official name Carries Crosses Locale Maintained by Designer Design Total length Height Longest span Clearance below Beginning date of construction Completion date Opened Toll Connects Worli Bandra to
Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link 8 lanes of road traffic (including 2 lanes for buses only) Mahim Bay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Hindustan Construction Company Seshadri Srinivasan Cable-stayed, Viaducts 5.6 kilometers (3 mi) 126m 250m x 2 20m 2000 21 April 2009 30th June, 2009 Rs. 50 for one way Rs. 75 for to & fro
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The Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL), officially the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is a cable-stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, which links Bandra and the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli and central Mumbai, and is the first phase of the proposed West Island Freeway system. The Rs. 1600 crore ($ 400 million approx.) project of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) was executed by Hindustan Construction Company, with design and project management by DAR Consultants. The bridge was dedicated to the public on 30 June 2009 by Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, although only 4 of 8 lanes are in service. The Sea Link reduces travel time between Bandra and Worli from 4560 minutes to 7 minutes. The link has an average daily traffic of around 37,500 vehicles per day, about half the pre-opening estimate of 70,000.
Contents :
1 History 2 Overview
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2.3.1 Part - I North End Approach Structure 2.3.2 Part- II Cable-Stayed Bridge 2.3.3 Part - III South End Approach Structure
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2.4 Toll Plaza 2.5 Intelligent Bridge System 2.6 Power Supply Distribution and Road Lighting System 2.7 Pre-Cast Yard 2.8 Marine Works
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2.8.1 Foundation and Substructure 2.8.2 Cable Stay bridges 2.8.3 Pylon Tower Legs
History
Mahim Causeway was the only link connecting the western suburbs to island city of Mumbai. This northsouthwestern corridor would be highly congested resulting in a bottleneck at rush hours. The sea link was thus proposed to act as an alternate route between the western suburbs of Mumbai and central Mumbai, in addition to the existing Mahim Causeway, thus easing congestion. This link would also form a part of the larger West Island Freeway spanning the entire coastline. The project was initiated more than 10 years ago in 1999 and was supposed to be completed within 5 years but it was delayed due to public interest litigations. The foundation stone was laid in 1999, by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. It was to cost Rs 300 crore and finished in 2004.
Overview:
The Bandra Worli Sea link, view from the Taj Lands End.
Purpose:
The BWSL project is a part of the Western Freeway Sea Project, which, in turn, is a part of a larger proposal to upgrade the road transportation network of greater Mumbai. It is primarily meant to provide an alternative to the Mahim Causeway route that is presently the only connection between South Mumbai and the Western and Central suburbs. The project starts from the intersection of Western Express Highway and SV Road at the Bandra end, and connects it to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road (Worli Seaface) at the Worli end which in turn connects to Mumbai's arterial Annie Besant Road at the Narayan Pujari Nagar corner. The MSRDC has previously planned to open the remaining four lanes of the sea link by March 2010. However, the gruesome accidents taking place in a short span of time has altered the decision and the remaining lanes are expected to be in operation by the end of January 2010. The project has been commissioned by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd (MSRDC), designed by DAR Consultants and is being built by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC).
Construction:
The entire project was originally conceived as one large project comprising, different components, but in order to accelerate the overall construction schedule, the project has been divided into five construction packages. These packages helped, to an extent, to make the project meet its deadline.
Package I: Construction of flyover over Love Grove junction at Worli Package II: Construction of cloverleaf interchange at Mahim intersection Package III: Construction of solid approach road from the Mahim intersection up to the start of the Toll Plaza on the Bandra side and a public promenade Package IV: Construction of Cable-Stayed Bridges together with viaduct approaches extending from Worli up to the Toll Plaza at Bandra end, Intelligent Bridge System (IBS). Package V: Improvement to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road Package IV is the largest and main phase of Bandra-Worli Sea Link Project that has been awarded to HCC that includes cable-stayed bridge, viaduct approaches extending from Worli up to Toll Plaza at Bandra end and Modern Toll Plaza
The Bandra Worli Sea link, under construction, view from the Taj Lands End.
The bridge consists of twin continuous concrete box girder bridge sections for traffic in each direction. Each bridge section, except at the cable-stayed portion, is supported on piers typically spaced at 50 metres. Each section is meant for four lanes of traffic, complete with concrete barriers and service side-walks on one side. The bridge alignment is defined with vertical and horizontal curves. The bridge layout is categorized into three different parts: Part 1 - The north-end approach structure with Pre-Cast (PC) segmental construction. Part 2 - The Cable-Stayed Bridge at Bandra channel is with 50m -250m-250m-50m span arrangement and the Cable-Stayed Bridge at Worli channel is with 50m-50m-150m-50m-50m span arrangement. Part 3 - The south end approach structure with Pre-Cast segmental construction.
Toll Plaza:
A modern toll plaza with 16 lanes is provided at the Bandra end. The toll plaza is equipped with a state-of-theart toll collection system. A structure is provided at this location to house the control system for the ITS.
Pre-Cast Yard:
The Pre-Cast yard is located on reclaimed land. The yard caters to casting, storing and handling of pre-cast segments for the project totalling 2342 in numbers. The storage capacity requirement of yard is to be about 470nos. As the area available is limited, the segments are to be stored in stacks of three layers.
The weathered rock beds are further overlain by transported soil, calcareous sandstone and thin bed of coarse grained conglomerate. The top of these strata are overlain by marine soil layer up to 9m thick consisting of dark brown clayey silt with some fine sand overlying weathered, dark brown basaltic boulders embedded in the silt. The major engineering problems that needed suitable solutions before proceeding with the work were as follows: 1. Highly variable geotechnical conditions of the foundation bed as explained above. 2. Highly uneven foundation bed even for plan area of one pile. 3. Presence of Intertidal Zone (Foundation Bed exposed in low tide and submerged in high tide).