India, July 10 -- Three years after an additional bridge between Andheri West and Goregaon West was given the go-ahead, work on it is yet to begin. Awaiting permission from the Bombay high court which rolled in this May, things can now pick up speed-except for a hindrance by way of 2,500 slum tenements coming in the way. The BMC is, however, prepared with a plan to tackle them, and get the bridge work started off in August.

The Rs.499.20-crore bridge, another cable-stayed bridge that the BMC is adding to its roster, will begin at the slum-populated Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar in Goregaon West, go over the Goregaon creek at its banks and land at Masjid As Salam Chowk in Millat Nagar, Andheri West. Offering an alternative to the congested Ne...