Bandra Worli Sea Link to be a Tourist Spot
It seems that we will be able to zip through the Bandra-Worli Sea-Link 15 days before the scheduled deadline of January 31, 2009. Isnt that good news!!
The work of the Bandra Worli Sea link which comes to a stop during monsoons started with a bang well before monsoon got over. Government agencies like the Mumbai Port Trust helped by giving permission to HCC to move ahead before monsoon gets over. Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) and the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) have begun their last leg of construction activities - after a gap of almost three months - by placing a concrete segment towards the Worli end of the sea-link. Government directives, annually issued by the maritime and port authorities, stipulate all boating operations have to be stalled between June 1 and September 30 every year. However, the MSRDC and the HCC appealed to the government and urged for permission to start early construction work on the sea.
The 4.7-km-long Bandra Worli Sea Link, along with the approaches and flyovers, is costing around Rs 1,640 crore. The HCC is spending Rs 25 crore for the last leg of operation that is the completion of the 200-metre Worli end of the first four-lane Bandra Worli Sea Link.
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To make the Bandra Worli Sea Link a landmark and a tourist attraction, there are suggestions to construction of a clock tower, a lighthouse, fountains, an amphitheatre, Saptadweep pillars and murals depicting the history of Mumbai’s seven islands, and landscaping. MSRDC plans to develop the area towards the Worli and Bandra ends as a tourist spot with aesthetic sit-outs, laser shows, feature walls, and places for meditation next to jogging tracks. Sounds too good to be believed looking at the state of affairs on either side of the bridge. Maybe some place can be provided to the endless couples who currently line up near the Worli and Bandra end of the bridge to give them the privacy and reduce embarrasement to all.
Hopefully if the place is well lit and beautifully landscaped Bandra Worli Sea Link would be a symbol of modern Mumbai. Bajaj Electricals received the order to illuminate the Bandra-Worli sea-link project. So Bajaj ki Roshni will light up the bridge!! Can you believe that the lighting contract is worth 9 Crores!! Thats lots of bulbs…
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