Maharastra will be getting country’s first multi-lane, access-controlled expressway which was stalled due to covid by almost six months is back on track and is all set to get a significant redesign that will diminish travel time by a short ways from the approximately more than two hours it at present needs to finish the 95-kilometer venture.
The six-path MPE (Mumbai-Pune expressway), which was made completely functional almost twenty years prior, will see the six km-long Khandala Ghat area totally skirted by a huge passage and extension segment that is right now under development. Called the ‘Missing Link’, the whole detour was planned for finishing by mid-2023, yet the pandemic moved back the cutoff time by around a half year.
This project on the Mumbai-Pune expressway comprises of two passages, two viaducts, four extensions and a couple of more courses, and is being worked at an expense of around Rs 2,000 crore. It will be among Khopoli and Kusgaon and sidestep two locale, two talukas and eight towns. As well as bypassing the Ghat and lessening travel time, it will save fuel, decrease outflows, lower pollution levels and will likewise bring down mishaps along the stretch, which will just assist the turnpike with accomplishing its zero casualty target.
Notwithstanding, in what is positively uplifting news, the speed of development has gotten and the task ought to be in the groove again. Projects like, the Missing Link on the MPE, Mumbai-Nagpur expressway and the Mumbai Trans-Harbor Link are the big tickets project in Mumbai which will help the city breathe in multiple ways.
