Mumbai: Lower Parel RoB will take two years to get reconstructed

Mumbaikars who are already trouble after the closure of Delisle Bridge, better known as the Lower Parel road overbridge (RoB), now have further woes to deal with. The Western Railway has said that it will take up to two years to complete the reconstruction.

According to Hindustan Times, a meeting was held on Monday in which consultants revealed to BMC and WR that given the existing condition of the Lower Parel RoB, its reconstruction is likely to take approximately two years. A WR official told the leading daily, “The bridge will take quite some time for construction. During the meeting, it was evident that as the bridge is 100 years old, it requires special attention even during dismantling. The dismantling process will take nearly three months and then the reconstruction work would take one year.”

After the current fight between WR and BMC over maintenance and construction of bridges, the WR has now requested BMC to construct the Lower Parel road overbridge, for which the railways have written to the chief of BMC Ajoy Mehta. But civic officials told the leading daily, “We do not have the expertise to construct the bridge and even if we aim to do it, we will have to go to the railways for every small permission. This is an unnecessary blame game. It is a railways bridge and should be constructed by them.”

Well, it seems the cold-war between BMC and WR will go on forever and Mumbaikars will be the victim of this war and continue suffering.