The debris will be used to construct a new flyover and a parking lot in Mankhurd
The debris will be used to construct a new flyover and a parking lot in Mankhurd
The Lalbaug flyover may have been razed to the ground, but that's not the end of the road for this 38-year-old structure. Around 11,000 tonnes of debris will be used to construct the Rs 150-crore new flyover planned at the same location between Bharatmata and Lalbaug junction. The other debris, which is dumped at a state transport-owned plot in Mankhurd, will be used to construct a parking lot for trucks on the same site. And steel will be recycled and used to construct buildings.
"The rubble lying on the Mankhurd plot will be used for future infrastructure projects. Part of the debris will used for building the new flyover," said R Ramana, additional chief, transport and planning, MMRDA.
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Officials had said it would take 20 days to demolish the flyover, but the MMRDA brought down the 350-metre flyover in less than seven days. Around 36 dumpers (each carrying 15 tonnes of debris) made 650 trips to
the Mankhurd plot during the demolition.u00a0u00a0u00a0
At Lalbaug
The demolition comes as a relief to motorists. Yesterday, the MMRDA handed over a lane each on the Dr Ambedkar Road to the traffic police. Vehicles were allowed to ply on this stretch of the road, which was out of bounds for traffic from May 5. The part of the road, where the flyover once stood, has been barricaded, in order to ease levelling of the road. Once the stretch is constructed using paver blocks, the road will be separated by a divider.
The work on the new flyover will begin post-monsoon and it will take at least two years to complete.u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0
Rs 20 cr Cost of the old flyover
Rs 150 cr Cost of the new flyoveru00a0
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