The specialists at the tollgate towards the Nhava Sheva stopping point said individuals turned up in huge numbers to encounter driving on the scaffold.
Atal Setu the Mumbai Trans Harbor Sealink (MTHL), which opened to traffic at 8 am on Saturday, saw a sum of 8,169 vehicles in 12 hours on the very first moment, as per figures given by the Mumbai Metropolitan Locale Improvement Authority (MMRDA) which deals with this extension.
An authority said that traffic was great over the course of the day. ” As far as possible on the MTHL is 100kmph and no vehicles are permitted to pause and snap pictures. Be that as it may, since it was the principal day, a few workers were permitted to take photographs and snap selfies. We took help from the police to deal with the traffic.”
For a great many people who utilized the scaffold, it was the curiosity factor that attracted them to it. Some, as Rajesh Sinha, an IT proficient from Chembur, even took a stab at visiting the extension in the night yet thought that it is blockaded. He then drove for the second time on Saturday evening with his better half and their pet canine.
“He is eager to such an extent that we have made one more arrangement with our companions to see the horizon this evening from the scaffold,” his significant other said. Like them, the 21.8 km-long Atal Bihari Vajpayee Smruti Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu connect street was specked with different left vehicles on its debut day, as suburbanites partook in the ocean breeze and clicked photos.
On Saturday, Bandra businessman Ilyas Shankla and his wife also went to the Trans Harbour link road. The view is so lovely,” he said.
Shankla went on to say that he commutes three times per week from Bandra to his Turbhe office. He stated, “I will save three hours of travel time between locations with the bridge.”
Among the few workers who halted their vehicles on the ocean connect to partake in the view, Karnataka-based Rajat Manjunath remained with his folks to click pictures. ” We arrived at the air terminal and took the taxi directly to this extension,” he said. ” We wanted to see it for ourselves after hearing about its inauguration in the news.
On Saturday, a return trip on the Trans Harbour Link cost Rs 375, but many people thought the toll was too much for a daily commute. A month to month pass for a vehicle will cost Rs 12,500. ” This is acceptable for occasional joy rides and emergency travel. In any case, for everyday drives, the cost is extremely high,” said Sunil Dhepe, a Sanpada based occupant.
According to Dhepe, one of the main benefits of the Trans Harbour link will be less traffic on the Vashi and Airoli bridges, which connect Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
For something like ten kms towards the Sewri end of the extension, intelligent glass has been put on one or the other side of it. A piece of the scaffold likewise seals the perspective on the northern front where Bhabha Nuclear Exploration Place is found. At customary stretches, a computerized sensor shows the speed of the vehicle cruising by, and at each kilometer, a minuscule board showss the length of the ocean interface that the vehicle takes care of.
Avinash Bhagwat, an occupant of Andheri, said he had been trusting that quite a while will drive along the country’s longest ocean span. ” I had a magnificent driving encounter, in any case, it fills compelling reason need to me as it is not difficult to head out to Pune Lonavala through Mankhurd roadway since it is a more limited course than coming the whole way to south Mumbai and taking MTHL from Sewri,” Bhagwat said.
According to makeup artist Pratibha Rajput, who lives in Ulwe, the journey from her residence to South Mumbai takes one hour and fifteen minutes. On Saturday when she utilized the Trans Harbor connect to arrive at CST station to pick her dad, it required her only 35 minutes. ” The costs are high. Be that as it may, it saves a ton of time. Assuming the public authority lessens cost charges, individuals will actually want to all the more likely use the scaffold.”
The laborers at the tollgate towards the Nhava Sheva stopping point said individuals turned up in large numbers to encounter driving on the extension. ” The drivers kept telling us that the drive was so pleasant and the view from the bridge was beautiful as we paid the toll. In any case, they guarantee that the regularly posed inquiry was tied in with profiting the advantage of a financed cost on the return venture at Rs 375.
“The public authority is charging Rs 250 for a one way stumble on the scaffold. So, if a driver crosses the toll on their first trip, Rs 250 will be taken out of their Fastag account. However, the benefit can only be used if they come back through the bridge within 24 hours. As an additional Rs 125 is deducted when they return,” an employee at the toll booth explained.