On Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde stated that the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) will be open to traffic in November of this year and that as much as 90% of the civil work has been completed.
According to an official release, he stated that this "longest sea bridge in the country" will be the first to utilize the Open Road Tolling (ORT) system.
According to Shinde, it will take between 15 and 20 minutes to travel from Sewri in central Mumbai to Chirle in Navi Mumbai once the bridge is open to traffic.
He stated that the Open Tolling System will eliminate the need for vehicles to stop on the bridge to pay the toll.
According to representatives of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), this system is currently in use in Singapore.
According to a press release issued by the authority, the first longest Orthotropic Steel Deck (OSD) in package-2 of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) was successfully launched on Wednesday in the presence of chief minister Shinde.
180 meters in length and weighing 2300 metric tons, the first longest OSD of package 2 is the 22-kilometer Trans-Harbour link between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
The release pointed out that 15 of the 32 OSD spans in MTHL package 2 have already been launched.
A 16.5-kilometer stretch of the bridge's 22 kilometers is above the water.
The six-lane MTHL project, which is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is implemented by the MMRDA, a government agency in Maharashtra.
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