Gandhi Setu Ganga Bridge In Hazzipur. The Seance taken in Winter.
Detail of Gandhi Setu Bridge.
- Length of bridge (4.7km): 63 times the Qutub Minar
- Weight of bridge (6.7L tonnes): 50,000 African elephants
- 424 cables for main roadway: can support 900 tons each
- Length of steel wire used (37,680km): Nearly the earth's circumference
- Concrete used: 2.3 lakh cubic metres
- Height of main towers (126m): 43-storey building
- Pile caps: Bridge rests on 135 pile caps, the largest being 55 m in length and 55 m in breadth (half a football field)
- Peak-hour sweat: 4,000 workers and 150 engineers
- During peak hours, around 7,000 to 8,000 cars are expected to use the sea link per hour.
- Two and three-wheelers would not be allowed to ply on the Bandra-Worli sea link.
- 12 cameras will be monitored by MSRDC, traffic police and city police Link will be under the jurisdiction of Bandra and Worli police stations Two policemen on bikes will patrol Shoulders along bridge will allow traffic police to pull over errant drivers.
