Brand-New Flyover In Mumbai’s Borivali Starts Crumbling Within A Week

by Shreya Ghosh
Brand-New Flyover In Mumbai’s Borivali Starts Crumbling Within A Week

It was only 10 days back when environment minister Aaditya Thackeray inaugurated the newest flyover in the city. This is the R M Bhattad flyover in Mumbai’s Borivali West. Since the inauguration, the flyover has been open for all. As people started driving here, the condition started worsening. It has been some days and the tar used to construct the flyover is already crumbling.

Brand-New Flyover In Mumbai’s Borivali Starts Breaking

A video went viral on Twitter that shows how the roads are turning out to be and the conditions are deteriorating. The newest flyover’s condition is worsening within no time. @CharkopWarriors shot a video while driving on the road and showed its present condition. The video was posted on 21 June and now it has over 37K views. The page has tagged BMC and posed the video with the caption, ‘check the condition of surface of road over Kora Kendra flyover built over RM BHATTAD road Borivali W. Within 3 days of opening to vehicular traffic the surface Tar has gone wearing out. Potholes will surely be seen within week.’

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Mumbaikars Are Reacting To This Situation On Social Media

Mumbaikars are complaining and showing anger about the infrastructure on social media. They are complaining about how the pieces of rocks and gravel are falling off the road. Some are asking for penalising the responsible people behind this project, while some are tweeting about how they think this bridge is an unnecessary establishment in Borivali. People are really furious as to how things escalated so bad so quickly.

Meanwhile, the chief engineer commented on this too. According to the chief engineer, the layers and gravel falling off are antiskid layers. It will take almost a week for these issues to get fixed. All these will get immersed in the flyover roads and will fix the issues themselves.

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The construction of this flyover took 13,347 tonnes of concrete, 4,186 tonnes of steel, and 2,900 tonnes of reinforcement steel. It is 937 metres and features 2 lanes on every side.