Bandra Worli Sea Link - India's Civil Marvel

If we change from western suburbs to the islands of Mumbai, the only way out was to this day Mahim causeway. But today with the opening of the Bandra Worli Sea Link project of Sonia Gandhi's life of commuters would be much easier. Formerly with the unavailability of a different route, the distance of 8 km took almost 40 minutes, but with the opening of this Indian miracle of technology, the distance would be covered in just under for 10 minutes.

Talking about the engineering side of this project, the two cable-stayed bridges, a 600-meter channel in Bandra and the other twin-tower supports 350-meter at Worli channel of its kind in India. This eight-lane bridge has a cable-stayed bridge tower, nearly 43 stories high. The Cable Stay comprises 2250 km of high-strength galvanized steel wire that support these 20,000 tons of bulky structure. Several teams of engineers from Canada, China, Egypt, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Serbia, Indonesia and the Philippines have been working on the project.

Bandra-Worli Sea-Link

It is built with the cost of more than 1,650 crore and it took 10 years to built it. The construction was marred by litigation by environmentalists and fishermen. But eventually it was built with a lot of changes. But it is believed that nearly 100 crore per day in terms of time and save fuel.

Some other facts about Bandra Worli Sea Link

1.The bridge lighting at a cost of about Rs 9-crore done (Rs 90 million) of Bajaj Electricals
2. Bandra-Worli sea is likely to consume 1,000 KW of electricity per day and this would be supplied by Reliance Power and the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport.
3. It is built as a BOT that is, operate and transfer built. A toll gate is installed and each commuter has to pay out of use of the sea

Here's a video we got hold on youtube. Thanks to our visitors - Sanjana that this link sent to us.