BANDRAWORLI SEA

LINK

T.
Unnikrishnan
Aditya Singh
Charan

 INAUGRATION - June 30, 2009

Landmark of Mumbai City.
Among the most complex and
advanced construction projects
ever in India.
Major
Project
in
Mumbai
metropolitan region after Mumbai
Pune expressway.

PROJECT
Sea link project conceived in 1999.
Plagued by PILs Fishermen & Environmentalists
2004 - Work Started.
But drastic changes to 80% of the bridge design.
Cost escalation from Rs. 350 Crore to Rs. 1,306 Crore
to Rs. 1,634 Crore.
MSRDC Project.
Executed by Hindustan Construction Company.
Illumination By Bajaj Electricals for a budget of Rs. 9
Crore.

LOCALE
Build over Mahim Bay
Connects Bandra (suburb) to Worli
(Central Mumbai)
8-Lane wide
Sea-link Length = 5.6 Kilometers
Over the Sea = 3.8 Kilometers

FACT
India's first eight-lane freeway over
the open sea.
Hailed
as
a
modern
engineering marvel.

Indian

The length of steel wires used in the

project
is
equivalent
to
the
circumference of the Earth.
Its weight is equivalent to 50000

 The length of the bridge is 63

times the height of the Qutub
Minar in Delhi.
The height of the cable-stayed
tower is 126m, which is equal to a
43-storey tower.

Each cable can take a weight of

900 tons.

 Monitored by an Intelligent Bridge

System with a 16-lane, state-ofthe-art toll plaza.
Is built by a skilled team
comprising of the best engineers
from India, as well as, other
countries
including
Britain,

Canada, China, Egypt, Hong

Kong,
Indonesia,

HOW THE SEA-LINK HELPS

Additional
suburbs.

connectivity

from

city

to

Reduces travel time from 1 hour to just

7 minutes.
Decongests Mahim Causeway 125,000
vehicles a day.
Avoids 29 traffic lights.
Save Rs. 100 Crore a year in vehicle

PROBLEMS PERCEIVED
No solutions figured out for major
traffic snarls at Worli.
Additional Congestion at some
other roads.
Proposed Toll price (Rs. 50 / oneway) may dissuade a few.

FACTS & FIGURES

Official name

Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link

Carries

8 lanes of road traffic

Crosses

Mahim Bay

Locale

Mumbai,Maharashtra,Indi
a

Maintained by

Hindustan Construction
Company

Designer

Seshadri Srinivasan

Design

Cable-stayed,Viaducts

Total length

5.6kilometres (3mi)

Height

126m

Longest span

250m x 2

Clearance below

20m

Construction begin

2000

Construction end

21 April 2009

Opened

30 June 2009

Toll

50 (US$1.11)for one
way
75 (US$1.67)for both
side

 The Power of imagination

make us infinite
- John Muir