Motorists travelling on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway are set to get relief from traffic jams near the Versova bridge in Mira-Bhayandar from next year, as the new bridge over Vasai creek is expected to be open to the public in the first quarter of the year 2023. Officials said work on the new four-lane bridge is nearing completion at a fast pace.

At present, there are two bridges on either side of the Versova bridge near Ghodbunder on National Highway-8. Of these two, the one on the downstream side is very old. It was repaired in 2013-14 and thrown open to the public with a 15-tonne maximum load restriction.