Bandra Worli Sea link

1. BANDRA-WORLI
SEA LINK
 T. Unnikrishnan
 Aditya Singh
 Charan Mallela

3. • 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. • India's first eight-lane freeway over the open
sea.
• Hailed as a modern Indian engineering marvel.
• The length of steel wires used in the project is
equivalent to the circumference of the Earth.
• Its weight is equivalent to 50000 African
elephants.
FACT

7. • 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.

8. • Monitored by an Intelligent Bridge
System with a 16-lane, state-of-the-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, Philippines, Serbia,
Singapore and Switzerland.

10. HOW THE SEA-LINK HELPS
• Additional connectivity from city to suburbs.
• 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 operating
costs.

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

12. Official name Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link
Carries 8 lanes of road traffic
Crosses Mahim Bay
Locale Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Maintained by Hindustan Construction Company
Designer Seshadri Srinivasan
Design Cable-stayed, Viaducts
FACTS & FIGURES

13. Total length 5.6 kilometres (3 mi)
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

14. “ The Power of imagination make us
infinite ”
- John Muir