Mumbai: BMC completes 50 per cent work on second tunnel of Coastal Road project

The Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC) has announced the completion of 50 per cent of work on the second tunnel of the Girgaum Chowpatty- Priyadarshini Park Coastal Road Project.

TN City Desk

Updated Jul 30, 2022, 14:45 IST

Mumbai Costal Road project

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Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed 50 per cent of work on the second tunnel of the Coastal Road project between Girgaum Chowpatty and Priyadarshini Park.

The civic corporation, in a press release on Friday, said that work on the 1-km stretch of the second tunnel of the Coastal Road has been completed. The excavation work for the 2 km-long second tunnel with a diameter of 12.49 metre commenced on January 11 this year.

The Coastal Road project work which is estimated to cost Rs 12,721 core is expected to be wrapped up in December 2023.

The Coastal Road project will have two tunnels which will be dug 10 to 70 metres below the surface between Girgaum Chowpatty and Priyadarshini Park. The digging work will be done using India's largest TBM (tunnel boring machine) ‘Mawla'.

The tunnels will be connected to each other with seven locations, of which four will be used for vehicles. The tunnels will also have emergency control rooms with automated systems.

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