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Tunnelling under the Mithi river: how Mumbai Metro is meeting the challenge
News article by IndianExpress which explains in most explanatory way and in layman's terms the challenges the Mumbai metro faces:
Seventeen Tunnel Boring Machines (17 TBMs) lowered by contractors of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd into Mumbai’s belly have now completed burrowing through about half the 33.5-km route of the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro Rail, India’s first fully underground Metro system.
please read further in IndianExpress.com:
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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I wrote about this most important milestone almost 300 days ago. That most important milestone came. The Mumbai Metro Line 3 has successfully finished tunnelling under the the Mithi river.
Only the second such work in whole India.
Congratulations to Mumbai Metro Line 3 workers.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/metro-3-passes-through-mithis-main-water-region-sets-record/article30936868.ece
Metro 3 passes through Mithi’s main water region, sets record
www.thehindu.comTunnelling on 1.48-km stretch likely to be over by March-end