Keypoints:
- Work on the long-delayed Sewri-Worli connector is expected to start soon.
- MMRDA has finalised the contractor for the Rs 1,276-crore project.
Construction on the long delayed Sewri-Worli connector is expected to start soon adding to which the MMRDA has finalised the contractor for the project of Rs 1,276 crore.
Cutting down an hour’s travel time between the two points to just 10 minutes, the 4.5 km flyover will be connecting the under construction Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) with the Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL).
An official of the MMRDA said that, “The flyover’s section above the Parel-Prabhadevi tracks will.have a double decker design similar to a section of the Santacruz-Chembur link road”.The contractor, J Kumar Infra Projects Ltd, has been given a deadline of 2023.” To cross the Parel Prabhdevi tracks section, MMRDA had earlier toyed with the idea of an underground stretch, but later dropped it.
There will be a double-decker flyover section over the Parel-Prabhadevi track similar to the one at Santacruz-Chembur Link Road. The flyover will be high as it has to pass over the Eastern Freeway, flyover on Dr Ambedkar Road, walkways of Parel and Prabhadevi stations.
Contractor J Kumar Infra Projects is handling the project and has been given a deadline of 2023 to finish the project. The tenders for this had been floated in March 2013, but the project faced major delays.
