Mumbai's GMLR Project Advances As 2nd TBM Joins Excavation Of Twin Tunnels
Mumbai: Mumbai’s Goregaon–Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project has reached a key milestone, with excavation of both tunnels beneath Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SNGP) now underway. While the first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), ‘Tulsi’, has bored 270 metres, the second machine, ‘Vihar’, has commenced tunnelling after successfully clearing its 'Site Acceptance Test'. Under Phase 3(B) of GMLR project,…
The Mumbai GMLR project has made significant progress with the commencement of tunnel excavation by the second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), 'Vihar', beneath Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The first TBM, 'Tulsi', has already bored 270 metres, achieving an average tunnelling speed of six metres per day, with plans to increase this pace to 10 metres daily.
The twin three-lane tunnels, spanning 5.34 km each, will connect Dadasaheb Phalke Film City in Goregaon East with Amar Nagar in Mulund West. This underground connection is expected to transform east-west connectivity, ease congestion on Mumbai's arterial roads, and provide a faster link from the western suburbs to Mulund, Thane, and Navi Mumbai.
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