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'Slower' Parel bridge: BMC pushes deadline for completion to 2023
Updated On: 14 October, 2021 08:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Chetna Sadadekar
Sources say rlys’s girder launching is blocking BMC’s share of work on Delisle Road overpass; it’s a long way for Hancock bridge as civic body struggles to clear squatters
Only pedestrians can use the Hancock bridge at present
The Lower Parel bridge will now take another year to be completed, with the BMC pushing the deadline to January 2023. Work on the overpass was to get over by end of 2021 or latest by early 2022. The original 98-year-old bridge was pulled down in 2018. The work on another important link, the Hanock bridge, is crawling.
BMC officials said that unless the girders on the bridge are launched by the Western Railway, they cannot do much. The initial plans were to construct the approach roads by the BMC and the bridge over the rail lines by WR simultaneously. But with the girders lying on the approach roads, the corporation is finding it difficult to carry out its share of work, said the officials.
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