EEH widening work in Kopri to finish in 3 months: MMRDA commissioner SVR Srinivas

THANE: The widening work of the Eastern Express highway above the railway tracks at Kopri from four lanes to eight will be completed in the next three months, MMRDA commissioner SVR Srinivas informed, on Sunday.
The EEH is widely used by traffic moving between Mumbai-Navi Mumbai and Thane, Gujarat and Nashik. The widening will drastically reduce travel time for these vehicles by minimum 30 minutes which is otherwise spent to cross the bottleneck here and will ensure faster dispersal from either ends, deputy commissioner of police, Thane traffic, Datta Kamble said.
"The Kopri bridge widening project is in advanced stage of execution and will be completed in the next three months providing huge relief to motorists from eastern suburbs of Mumbai and Thane," said Srinivas following the successful launch of a girder on the stretch over the weekend. The MMRDA completed the first phase last year and has started execution of second phase of Rs258 crore project to add four more lanes to the existing highway to make it into an eight lane one. "A network of girders was placed above a subway by four cranes. The work started late Saturday and ended early Sunday. We completed 85% of the project and girders over railway tracks will be launched soon and concretisation of approach roads on the new 2+2 lanes will be completed by 2023," MMRDA spokesperson said.