Mumbai Drivers’ 50-Year Wait May End With $2.5 Billion Bridge
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Mumbai intends to begin work next year on a bridge costing as much as 110 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) as it acts on an idea first proposed in the 1960s to curb traffic jams.
The 22-kilometer “Mumbai Trans Harbour Link,” connecting the island city with the mainland Navi Mumbai district, will open before a new airport begins operations in 2014, Rahul Asthana, commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, or MMRDA, said in an April 8 interview. The bridge will have six lanes of highway and two rail tracks, he said.