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Mumbai: A year after Gokhale bridge collapse, WR changes bridge design

The new design envisages construction of a sturdy steel structure supported on the closed columns with provision to prevent the ingress and retention of water thereby not leading to corrosion

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Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

A year after Gokhale bridge collapse, Western Railway has made structural changes in the design of all its bridges to make them sturdy and working on the audit survey of bridges by given by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

The new design envisages construction of a sturdy steel structure supported on the closed columns with provision to prevent the ingress and retention of water thereby not leading to corrosion.

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