AMID the subdued pace of Mumbai due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the key Delisle Road bridge is quietly rising near one corner of the Lower Parel station. The work above the rail tracks is expected to be complete in two months.

The deep foundations of the bridge were laid on the either side of the tracks in January and the web girder that is being assembled is now expected to get ready in April. An engineer said the girder has been designed keeping in mind that the bridge needs to be placed at an angle of 65 degrees, matching with the alignment of its earlier avatar. The bridge has come up on a skeleton of 360 metric tonnes of stainless steel covered by 3,700 cubic metres of robust M-40 concrete.