MARCH 16: New Year opening for carriageway

From March 16,motorists travelling from south Mumbai to the suburbs can use the Bandra-Worli Sea Links four so-far unopened lanes.

From March 16,MOTORISTS travelling from south Mumbai to the suburbs can use the Bandra-Worli Sea Links four so-far unopened lanes. The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) plans to commission the north carriageway on Gudi Padwa,the Maharashtrian New Year.

The carriageway was scheduled to be commissioned by December-end but missed the deadline as work was behind schedule. Were tentatively looking at that date and expect to freeze it in a day or two, said Sonia Sethi,joint managing director,who also holds additional charge as vice chairman and managing director.

Till a cloverleaf is built by the concessionaire of the Worli-Haji Ali Sea Link,motorists will have to use a connector linking the carriageways at the Worli end. The cloverleaf connector from the Worli end will be built from the second carriageway and connect to the road at the Worli end,near Thadani junction. Construction of the 1.5-km cloverleaf would at least take 18 months after the contract for the next arm of the Western Freeway Project is awarded.

The MSRDC,which plans a low-key opening of the second carriageway,is hoping that the number of accidents on the sea link would decrease. Currently the four lanes of the operational carriageway are divided into two each for north and south traffic,which has caused some accidents,including fatal ones.

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