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bandra-worli sea link

important facts!

Located in mumbai - India

The time it took to be build was 10 years

The materials used to build the bridge were steel, post-stressed concrete and cables

This bridge has a total lenght of 5.6Km

curious facts!

  • It is supported by two wires that are considered as the longest and toughest in the world
  • Its weight is equivalent to 50000 African elephants
  • The height of the cable-stayed tower is 126m, which is equal to a 43-storey tower
  • The length of steel wires used in the project is equivalent to the circumference of the Earth
  • Each cable can take a weight of 900 tons
  • Has 4 lines of traffic on each direction
  • Clasified as a cable-stayed bridge
  • Bandra-worli Bridge is India’s Biggest Sea Link Bridge
  • Links Mahim bay (between Bandra and Worli)
  • The main span over the Bandra channel is one of the longest spans of concrete deck attempted
  • Designed by Seshadri Srinivasan .

The bridge consists of three distinct parts: the north end viaduct, the central cable-stayed spans and the south end viaduct. Both the viaducts used precast segmental construction.

The cable-stayed bridge on the Bandra channel has a 50m-250m-250m-50m span arrangement and on the Worli channel it has a 50m-50m-150m-50m-50m span arrangement.

The project has been divided into four construction packages

1. Construction of the acces to the bridge from each end

2. Construction of the span from each end to the middle of the brige

history facts!

3. Construction of the solid aproach road from the middle intersection to each end

4. Construction of the cable stayed bridges together with viaduct approches (largest and main phase of the construction of the brigde)

Ferries carried passengers before in this way but had many storms and this caused subsidence and caused 168 fatalities

More than 2 billion of people worked to build the bridge

The bridge was inaugurated in April 5 1998

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