The much-delayed opening of Gokhale bridge is likely to place partially soon this year as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to launch a girder on the railway portion of Gokhale bridge at Andheri at least by the end of September.
Additionally, it also plans to open one lane of the new bridge for public use by Diwali. This development came after Andheri MLA Ameet Satam visited the bridge construction site with Additional Municipal Commissioner P Velrasu on Thursday, July 6.
There are no issues regarding steel or anything else and work is going as per schedule, exclaimed a BMC official after the visit.
Meanwhile, Satam stated that work on the portion in BMC jurisdiction will be complete by the end of this month. Work on the construction of two piers on the railway portion is in progress and it will also be complete by the end of the month. Subsequently the portions under BMC and railways jurisdiction will be complete. After that, slab and concreting work will start.
According to the BMC official, the bridge will have four lanes. The cost of the project is around INR 160 crore.
For those unversed, the BMC closed the bridge for traffic in November 2022. This has led to heavy traffic in Andheri, Jogeshwari and Vile Parle. Part of the bridge collapsed in 2018. After two years the BMC issued a work order in 2020 to construct an approach way to the bridge. But this was stuck due to the pandemic.
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