Overview
- MMRDA installed two 59‑metre, 160‑tonne steel trusses over the Eastern Express Highway during a four‑hour traffic window on Tuesday, July 21, with the actual lifts completed in about one hour.
- Officials said the operation was carried out under detailed planning and strict safety protocols in close coordination with the Mumbai Traffic Police to limit disruption on the busy arterial road.
- With the trusses in place, a segment launcher will now install 1,632 precast concrete segments of roughly 90 tonnes each, building a 25‑metre‑wide single‑cell segmental superstructure span by span.
- The 13.9‑km extension is a fully elevated, six‑lane corridor linking Anand Nagar (Thane) to Cheeda/Cheddha Nagar (Ghatkopar) and is designed to remove bottlenecks on the Eastern Express Highway.
- MMRDA projects the completed corridor will cut travel time between South Mumbai and Thane to about 20–30 minutes, a change that could shorten commutes and ease traffic on east–west routes as the segment installation phase progresses.