Saturday, February 14, 2009

Bandra-Worli Sealink: India's engineering excellence !!!

Bandra Worli Sea Link Project has been one of the most highly recommended project of all the transport studies done for the metropolitan region. The Bandra Worli Sea Link will be an 8-lane, cable-stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, which will link Bandra and the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli and central Mumbai.
The Sea Link will enable speedy travel between Bandra and Worli, cutting travel times up to one hour.The eight-lane flyover will have capacity of carrying about 1.40 lakh cars per day. Large multi-axel vehicles and two-wheelers would not be allowed on the sea link. Speed limit would have to be maintained at 100 km/hr.

The Bandra-Worli Sea Link is an engineering marvel.It weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants, the tallest tower equals a 43-storey building and steel wires that could be lined up to form the circumference of the earth have been used to make it.Putting it all together was a feat in itself.Each of the concrete girders weigh more than 150 metric tonnes. The massive gantry cranes help move these girders. A 96-wheel trolley helps carry the enormous structure to fit one into another and form a continuation of a bridge that will go on and connect to the other end.

The Bandra Worli sea link project has certain unique features. These include:

1)An 8-lane bridge with 2 lanes dedicated for buses.
2)Unique bridge design for the Link Bridge to emerge as a land mark structure in the city.
3)Single tower supported 500 metre long cable-stayed bridge at Bandra Channel and twin tower supported 350 m cable-stayed bridge at Worli Channel for each carriageway.
4)Modern toll plaza of 16 lanes with automated toll collection system.
5)An intelligent bridge with state-of-art systems for traffic monitoring, surveillance, information and guidance, instrumentation, emergency support, etc.
6)Development of promenade and landscaping to enhance the environment.

1 comment:

Nishant said...

bandra-worli sea link inaugurated today (video)
The eagerly awaited Wednesday Bandra-Worli Link is ready to be inaugurated by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. India is the first cable-stayed bridge is open, which would reduce from 40 minutes to 8 minutes.

The Rs 1.634 crore 8-tracks is ready to open, after nearly five years of delay and dispute, on Tuesday. This link-Wednesday will be a relief for commuters between the western suburbs of Bandra Worli in South Central Mumbai, in just eight minutes.

The project was designed at a cost of Rs 300 crore to be completed in 2004. The cost has increased by six folds at Rs 1.600 crore due to changes in plans and other delays.

The speed limit has been said to 80kmph but will be lowered to 50 km / h.
http://bandra-worli-sealink.blogspot.com/