Key Points
, or Mumbai Trans Habour Link (MTHL), on Friday by travelling on the sea-bridge from INS Shikara in Colaba to Navi Mumbai..
The 21.8km sea-bridge, the longest in the country, will be opened to commuters from Saturday...
Its real potential, though, will be unleashed once the Sewri-Worli elevated corridor, the Eastern Freeway-Marine Drive tunnel, the proposed Chirle-Palaspe connection with the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and the international airport in Navi Mumbai are completed...
In the making since 2018, MTHL will also provide a shorter route to the Navi Mumbai International Airport, the much-needed second airport in the region, after the Navi Mumbai Coastal Road is completed. MTHL and the Navi Mumbai International Airport, scheduled to begin commercial operations in December, are expected to be the twin engines that will put the high-tech 'Third Mumbai', planned over 334 sq km, on an accelerated growth path...
The NAINA project, which had the same ambitions as Third Mumbai, failed to take off in its decade of existence, but the promise of a 20-minute drive to Sewri in the city via MTHL, and access to the wider world that the upcoming airport and existing Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust will bring, besides an upcoming link road to the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, are all expected to make the Third Mumbai project a success..
