Easy and smooth commute for Mumbaikars! Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road flyover likely to be open soon

The flyover is alleged to assist ease the commute between the Japanese Specific Freeway and Navi Mumbai. (representational picture)

Ghatkopar-Mankhurd hyperlink street: After an extended delay of three years, the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd hyperlink street flyover is anticipated to be thrown open to the general public by mid of August. Growth work on the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd hyperlink street flyover, which is among the essential flyovers, is at present 97 per cent full, based on Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) officers quoted in an IE report. The flyover is alleged to assist ease the commute between the Japanese Specific Freeway and Navi Mumbai. Officers from the Company’s bridges division mentioned that the general flyover challenge is sort of over and now solely petty works stay similar to asphalting and portray of some stretches of the flyover.

Satish Thosar, Chief Engineer (in cost), bridges division, was quoted within the report saying that BMC is hopeful that the remaining works of the flyover will probably be accomplished by mid-August. The development work for the two.1 kilometre lengthy flyover started within the yr 2016 and the challenge’s authentic deadline was January 2019. Final February, the BMC Standing Committee cleared a proposal of price escalation and deadline extension for the flyover challenge. The flyover challenge price has elevated to Rs 713 crore from the preliminary quantity of Rs 576 crore. For delay, a nice of Rs 40 lakh has additionally been imposed on the contractor by the BMC.

Based on officers, the delay on the challenge has been prompted primarily as a consequence of an extra arm development for the Deonar dumping floor. One other official from BMC talked about that the arm for the Deonar dumping floor is prepared and it’ll assist rubbish vans to seamlessly attain the positioning. The flyover, as soon as opened, will present a lot reduction to motorists, the official added.

In the meantime, there was an issue over the naming of the flyover. Rahul Shewale, a Shiv Sena MP has written to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray demanding that the flyover challenge be named after Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, based on the report. Whereas final December, Manoj Kotak, a BJP MP had written to the BMC looking for that the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd hyperlink street flyover be named after Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the report added.