New Delhi - India on Tuesday opened its first highway bridge built over the open sea in its congested financial capital of Mumbai after nine years of construction. The 5.6-kilometre-long, eight-lane link made of steel and concrete is to cut the driving time between the northern suburbs and the centre of the western metropolis from 40 to 10 minutes.
More than 3,000 workers from 11 nations worked to build the 400-million-dollar structure, and Indian officials said they believed 150,000 vehicles per day would cross the Arabian Sea via the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
The toll to use the bridge is 1 dollar.
