Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Moolchand Metro Bridge

Of all the Metro construction this is by far and away the best thing - the Moolchand fly over bridge. There are 3 layers of highway at that point - one underpass, the ground level Mahatma Gandhi Inner Ring Road, and a flyover on the Lajpat Nagar road - so the Metro had to find a way to bridge all three. They began building the super-structure about 12 months ago. Then slowly they've progressed. In the past 3 months they've been adding the cables. I never saw them putting the cables in until about 2 weeks ago when Sunita was driving us home - we went over the flyover and we saw workers installing the 4th cable on the west side of the street. Very exciting. Here is an artists rendering ... I can't get a picture in the morning because I approach it from the east and it is only a hazy silhouette at best. Zindabad Metro!



And here is a link to a video view of the bridge almost complete - all the cables in place.

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