Mumbai Metro | MMRC completes 5 km tunneling of Colaba-Seepz corridor
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) is executing the 33.5 km corridor of which the 5 km of tunneling across its alignment in the city has been completed. Underground corridor for the Colaba-Seepz metro line has completed 10% of tunneling work. The memorial of Emperor Shivaji is interestingly being built using rubble from excavating 33.5 km long Colaba-Seepz underground Metro line — ajith (@vakilatlarge) December 24, 2016 The four location where the underway tunneling is constructed Marol, Naya Nagar(Mahim), Vidyanagari (Kalina), Azad Maidan and all this is being done with eight tunnel – boring machines (TBM’S) in operation. The TBM’s need to bore 52 km (without stations) for both the up and down lines for the construction of the underground corridor. Ashwini Bhide, Managing director, MMRC said that The tunneling commenced in November 2017 from the Naya Nagar-launching shaft in Mahim, and the TBMs are currently moving at a speed of 350m p...