Looking at Seshadri Srinivasan, it’s hard to believe that this unassuming gentleman is responsible for the design of Mumbai’s newest landmark: the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. Yet, the whole behemoth, inaugurated on Tuesday, first took its present form in the sketches of this 77-year-old bridge designer.
“I’ve lost count of the number of bridges I’ve designed,” says Srinivasan, a 1958 post-graduate in structural engineering from Madras University.
“In fact, it would be safe to say that I designed my 100th bridge a long time ago.”
And indeed, the man has quite a few famous bridges to his credit, from the JJ Flyover that was completed in 2002 to the world-renowned Jamarat Bridge in the holy city of Mecca, which is used by Muslims during Haj in the stoning-of-the-devil ritual.
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“I’ve lost count of the number of bridges I’ve designed,” says Srinivasan, a 1958 post-graduate in structural engineering from Madras University.
“In fact, it would be safe to say that I designed my 100th bridge a long time ago.”
And indeed, the man has quite a few famous bridges to his credit, from the JJ Flyover that was completed in 2002 to the world-renowned Jamarat Bridge in the holy city of Mecca, which is used by Muslims during Haj in the stoning-of-the-devil ritual.
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i think the number of tourists will increase in Mumbai ...just because of bandra worli sea link ....
Does this mean traffic problem will remain :) inspite of bandra worli sea link.
Yesterday i thought i will take a taxi from town to jogeshwari via bandra worli sea link. There was a big jam at the worli sea link enterance as it wasn't started for public. Looking at yesterdays traffic iam getting a feeling that we might cover worli to bandra in 8 minutes but we will spend 10 mins extra while getting in and getting out of sea link.
yes .... traffic problem will remain .... after all its Mumbai.....
I guess this bridge is a first part and one more bridge is under pipeline from worli to Hajiali. Then to resolve traffic issue a entire new trafic policy needs to be designed considering tiny roads of south Mumbai. Only God knows when this new bridge will start meanwhile Sharad Pawar & co can decide name for new bridge what about naming them with Priyanka's kids?
time to do second round of reclamation.. flatten the ghats and fill the bay.. might help resolve real estate issues too.. plenty of jobs for the locals.. much more opportunities for corruption also so the politicians/builders/criminals will be happy.. :)
I think that was a suggestion given by some minister some years back..right ?
His idea was that reducing height of ghats would allow rain clouds to pass into the rain-shadow region and reduce water shortage there...
sandeshp flatten the ghats and fill the bay.. might help resolve real estate issues too.. Is there any link to the story..?
no direct link.. unless you consider that no matter how many bridges you build, unless there is solution to space constraints at both ends it is not going to work in long term.. the brits realised the space constraints very early on. so rather than keeping building more and more bridges they joined the 7 islands themselves! :-)