Changing City: Ghatkopar’s Rs 350 crore cable-stayed bridge to ease traffic | Mumbai News

July 24, 2026 Headlinesnews

3 min readMumbaiUpdated: Jul 24, 2026 06:37 PM IST

To ease traffic along the congested eastern suburbs, work is underway on a new cable-stayed bridge in Ghatkopar which will bridge vehicular movement in the area’s eastern and the western portions, and intersect with the Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) marg.

Being developed jointly by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation (MRIDC), the cable-stayed bridge is set to play a key role in decongesting not only the LBS marg but also the crucial Andheri Ghatkopar Link Road (AGLR) and Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link road (JVLR).

Ghatkopar cable-stayed bridge: About the project

For over four decades, the rail-over-bridge in Ghatkopar served as a crucial link for commuters traveling from the direction of LBS Marg towards the Eastern Express highway. However, that link was shut for vehicular movement after a safety audit in 2018 deemed the structure unsafe.

In the absence of the link, motorists were left to traverse this route through the congested JVLR and AGLR routes, where traffic crawls during the peak hours.

In a bid to provide seamless connectivity, the BMC and MRIDC took up the cudgels to construct a new cable-stayed-bridge in place of the old ROB structure.

One of the first cable-stayed bridges of the eastern suburbs, the structure will pass over the railway tracks while also crossing over the Line 4 of the Metro Rail project and the underground bullet train line.

While the portion over the railway tracks will be made in cable-stayed design, the one across the high-speed rail alignment and LBS marg is set to come up in bowstring steel spans.

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To aid pedestrians, the bridge will have footpaths all along.

Specifications of the bridge

Specifications of the bridge

The bridge starts from the Golibar road junction to the Eastern Express Highway.

Length of the cable stayed portion over railway line: 108 m

Length of the bow string steel span across bullet train alignment: 92 m

Length of span proposed over LBS marg: 90 m

Below the ROB, the authorities have envisioned service roads

Timeline – 2027

Administration speaks

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“The bridge will significantly reduce traffic time in the eastern suburbs. For the convenience of commuters, the project is being executed phase wise. After completing work on the right-hand side of the project, traffic will be diverted here following which work on the other arm will be taken up,” said an official from MRIDC.

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