With the detailed project report completed and land acquisition started, the work on building India’s longest (11.80 km) road tunnel linking Thane-Borivali – passing beneath the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) – will start from March 2022, Maharashtra PWD Minister Eknath Gaikwad said on Thursday.
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) project, which will comprise a 10.25 km double tunnel and 1.55 km junction, is slated to cost around Rs 11,235 crore and expected to be completed in about 66 months.
The 6-lane twin tunnel (3 lanes in each direction) will enable vehicles to zip at 80-kmph and slash the travel time, from the current 60 minutes to barely 15 minutes, between Borivali on the Western Express Highway to Thane, besides decongesting the Ghodbunder Road, Shinde said.
