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Figure 50: Main Span Tower General Arrangement
The design was specifically tailored to enable one
carriageway to be completed before the other to
enable opening as rapidly as possible – to maximise
benefit to the users - and also because very
constrained financial conditions were given by the
Client.
However, unlike many parallel structures, the key
elements where repetition and continuity of work are
need - such as the foundations and tower - these
were done as one piece of work.
The project is also a beacon of trade links between
the UK and India and we hosted the UK Prime
Minister, Gordon Brown, when he visited the site in
January 2007.
The first phase of the bridge opened in June 2009,
with immediate benefit to traffic flow and significant
reduction in traffic emissions. The local population
talk of the bridge as an ‘engineering marvel’.
It captured the imagination of the public to the extent
that for the first 5 days after opening there were
queues on the bridge as people wanted to experience
the drive.
Figure 51 ←: Bandra Bridge Towers.
The pyramidal form gives a stable platform for construction
and for good aerodynamic performance during service
Figure 52 ↑: Completed Bridge at day
4/2018