To ease traffic movement in the western suburbs, following the closure of Gopal Krishna Gokhale Bridge in Andheri, the BMC has floated a Rs 25.10-crore tender to carry out resurfacing works and repair the existing bad patches on all alternate routes for east-west movement.
The BMC had written to the Mumbai Traffic Police on November 1, urging it to shut down the bridge owing to poor structural stability. The bridge was shut for both vehicular and pedestrian movement from November 7.
While the authorities are contemplating to reopen a portion a part of the bridge for pedestrians and light weight vehicles after taking technical opinion from IIT-Mumbai and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute,
