The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) was inaugurated on January 12, 2024, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Check out 12 important things about this newly developed infrastructure.
- The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL)’s will be officially called as the Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Trans Harbour Link.
- This six-lane India’s longest sea bridge with 21.8 km will connect Sewri in Mumbai to Chirle in Navi Mumbai.
- This is the 12th longest bridge in the world.
- The construction cost of the MTHL is around Rs 17, 843 crore.
- The speed limit is 100 kmph and the ascent and decent speed is 40 kmph.
- The MTHL has incorporated the Open Road Tolling (ORT) system. With this, vehicles can pay the toll charges while passing the toll station without the need to stop. This will save time and also eliminate traffic congestion. The toll for the MTHL is Rs 200 one-way for cars. The return trip, daily and monthly toll tariffs is Rs 300. The daily pass is Rs 500 and the monthly pass is Rs 10,000.
- With the MTHL, people can travel between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai in 20 minutes as compared to the present route through the Vashi Bridge, which takes more than an hour.
- The MTHL will provide faster connectivity to the Navi Mumbai International Airport, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the Mumbai-Goa Expressway and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT).
- The MTHL will have 1,212 lighting poles equipped with a Central Control & Monitoring System (CCMS) that has been designed to withstand the challenges of being situated in the deep sea.
- The MTHL has used over 1,70,000 metre tonne of steel bars that is around the weight of 17 Eiffel Towers.
- The MTHL has 35 km pile liners in its construction that is 35 times taller than Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
- In the construction of the MTHL, around 9,75,000 cubic metre of concrete was used. This is around six times the concrete used construction of the Statue of Liberty.
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