Lets go for a ride towards Pune!!!

Presented to:-Prof. Rahul Bhatia

Presented by:-Honey Aggarwal - 13

Sahil Goyal - 29

State Maharashtra Terminal 1 Kalamboli (Near Panvel) Terminal 2 Dehu Road (Near Pune)

Length 93 km Built by MSRDC

Operated by MSRDC Number of Lanes 6 Highway Tunnels 5

MUMBAI PUNE EXPRESSWAY

General

The Mumbai Pune Expressway, officially the Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway is India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed, access controlled tolled expressway. It spans a distance of 93 km (58 miles) connecting Mumbai, the financial capital of India, and the neighboring industrial hub city of Pune. It has introduced for India new levels of speed and safety in automobile transportation.

Construction

The project was completed under the stewardship of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).The expressway cost Rs. 16,30,00,00,000 (approx. US$ 362 million) to construct.The first sections opened in 2000, and the entire route was completed, opened to traffic and made fully operational from April 2002.

History

• In 1990, the Government of Maharashtra appointed RITES and Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick of United Kingdom to carry out feasibility studies for the new expressway to be operated on toll basis. RITES submitted their report in 1994 with the estimated cost of project at Rs. 1146 crores (11.46 billion rupees). The Government of Maharashtra entrusted the work of the construction of Mumbai-Pune expressway to MSRDC in March 1997 on Build-Operate-Transfer basis with permission to collect toll for 30 years.

• The tender notice was published in leading newspapers all over India and also on the Internet. Due to wide publicity, 133 tenders were sold and on December 18, 1997, 55 tenders were received. After technical and financial evaluation, tenders were accepted and work orders were given on January 1, 1998 to four contractors. Thereafter tenders for widening of Khandala and Lonavala-Khandala bypass works were invited. The tenders were received on August 24, 1998 and orders were issued on September 4, 1998.

An overview of the expressway

Tunnels

The expressway has four-lane-wide tunnels at five locations with a total length of 5,724m. There are separate tunnels for traffic in each direction and the cost of the tunnels was about Rs200 crores ($40 million). The tunnels on this Expressway were provided with modern facilities for ventilation, lighting and fire fighting vehicles. This work was entrusted to Kokan Railway Corporation Ltd on 8 December 1997.

The entire length of expressway has a single layer of barbed wire fencing to keep out loose cattle.

Tunnel Description

1 Bhatan This tunnel opened in April 2000Mumbai-Pune (North) tube is 1,053 m and Pune-Mumbai (South) tube is 1,088 m long.

2 Madap This tunnel also opened in April 2000.Mumbai-Pune (North) tube is 305.3 m and Pune-Mumbai (South) tube is 359.3 m long.

3 Adoshi This only has a Pune-Mumbai tube.The Mumbai-Pune carriageway skirts the eastern edge of the tunnelwhile the Pune-Mumbai carriageway traverses the 258 m long tunnel.

4 Khandala This is a curved pair of tubes. The Mumbai-Pune (North) tube is 293.5 mand the Pune-Mumbai (South) tube is 400 m long.

5 Kamshet-1 It has 2 tubes roughly 900 m each.

6 Kamshet-2 359 m

These are:

Entrance of Madap tunnel on Mumbai Pune Expressway from Pune side

Tolls Toll is collected at Khalapur (Pali Phata) (for the Mumbai-Pune direction)

and at Talegaon (for the Pune-Mumbai direction). The toll ranges from Rs.140 for private cars, to Rs.960 for multi-axle trailer trucks.

ExpansionMSRDC had decided to extend the Mumbai Pune Expressway from its previous endpoint of Kalamboli near Panvel and to extend it till Sion in Mumbai. The extended stretch reduce commuting time between Mumbai and Pune by 30 minutes. Under the plan, the Sion Panvel Expressway corridor is widen, with dedicated lanes for heavy and light vehicles. Service roads are built for entry and exit at various points. It also involve constructing a brand new bridge over the Thane creek parallelly to the current Vashi Mankhurd Bridge. MSRDC had undertaken the expansion project. Work was commenced in March 2009 and is expected to complete by September 2011. The new 22-km link is expected to cost Rs 800 crore.

The Mumbai-Pune Expressway as

seen from Khandala

Controversy about naming the expressway

The expressway was conceived and the work started when the BJP and Shivsena ruled the Maharashtra State. At some point they decided to name the expressway after one of the greatest Marathi litterateur Late Pu. La. Deshpande. Eventually, in 2009, the ruling coalition (Congress, NCP) named the expressway after the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Late Yashavantrao Chavan.

In order to complete the work on time, the latest construction machinery was used. The cost of this machinery alone was about Rs300 crores ($60 million). The main machinery used was as follows: a slip form paver, used for laying concrete road at 4m wide and 35cm thick at 1m/min; a large size crusher which has the capacity of breaking metal at rate of 40 to 50 trucks/hour; a sand manufacturing machine, used to produce artificial sand, as the large quantities of sand required for the project were not available; concrete transit mixers and dumpers, used for transportation of concrete from batching plant to laying site; and wagon drills for blasting of rocks. These drills can bore holes up to 10m deep.Apart from the above machinery, a large number of vibratory rollers, spreaders, graders and dumpers were used for earthwork.

Machinery

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