In a bid to connect Mumbai’s western suburbs to the east, a skyscraper bridge—as tall as a 10-storey building—is likely to come up between Worli and Sewri by mid-2022. The 4.5km-long, 32m-high bridge will connect the Bandra-Worli Sea Link to the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) in Sewri, and will run above the existing flyovers and monorail.

The ambitious project, to be built at an estimated cost of a whopping Rs1,500 crore, will involve five authorities—Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), and Mumbai Port Trust.

As per the plan, the elevated corridor will begin at Sewri interchange on MTHL, run along the Acharya Donde Road in Parel, Jagannath Bhatankar Road in Elphinstone, Drainage Channel Road and Narayan Hardikar Road in Prabhadevi, then turn towards Century Bhavan and land near Sacred Heart Convent School in Worli. Between Senapati Bapat Road and BR Ambedkar Road, it’ll be a double-decker corridor that will run above two flyovers and the Elphinstone Road overbridge. The existing overbridge above the Elphinstone Road railway lines will need to be demolished and rebuilt, according to the proposal.

As the corridor will run through densely populated areas of Worli, Elphinstone Road, Parel and Sewri, several residential and commercial buildings will be required to make way for the construction. The BMC has already initiated the process of notifying the buildings that are likely get affected, inviting suggestions and objections to the project.