Civic body gears up to strengthen Mumbai bridges

July 4, 2019

It’s been a year since Gokhale bridge in Andheri had collapsed. At 7.33 am, on July 3, 2018, the lives of five families changed irrevocably after the collapse. This, however, put the engineers from the railways, BMC and other government agencies into an overdrive as 445 bridges across Mumbai were to undergo inspection for which IIT Bombay was roped in. A year later, the audit of major bridges was carried out; the foremost suggestion made to the Western Railway was to keep monitoring the health of five major bridges in Mumbai.

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