The Mankoli-Mothagaon bridge will be opened for traffic soon after the inauguration, which is most likely to take place next month. The construction of bridge connecting Dombivli and Bhiwandi will be completed by the end of this month.
This development came after the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) officials inspected the bridge. MMRDA Executive Engineer Arjun Korgaonkar, KDMC City Engineer Arjun Ahire along with Youth Sena Secretary Dipesh Mhatre went for the inspection.
After the inspection, officials shared that bitumen laying work is in the final stages, thereafter, lane marking and related works is to be carried out. After the efforts of MP Shrikant Shinde, the construction of this bridge gained speed.
Once open for public use, the bridge will drastically cut the travel time to just 15 minutes from more than an hour.
With its opening, the vehicular movement on the existing two routes is also expected to reduce.
The bridge has been designed to reduce the travel distance by about 27 km. At the moment, there are two routes to travel towards Thane or Mumbai.
The first is via Dombivli to Shilphata to Mumbra to Thane and then to Mulund. The alternate route is from Dombivli to Kalyan to Bhiwandi Bypass and then over to National Highway 3 that heads towards Mumbai.
A proposal was made in 2013 to build a bridge from Mankoli to Mogagaon. A 1225 m long and 27.5 m wide bridge was proposed over Ulhas river. However, the construction of the bridge commenced in February 2017. The deadline for the completion of this bridge was scheduled for mid-2019. During the planning and tendering stage in 2017, the project’s cost was estimated at ₹223 crore. However, owing to the delay in execution, the cost has shot up as well.
The development authority has estimated the cost of this project at ₹425 crore. The expenditure is high because a portion of the road will be on stilts.
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