Ohringer

Sampson Alexander Ohringer

 The name of this bridge is the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. The Bandra-Worli Sea Link was built from 2000 and it was finished in april of 2009. The bridge was built in Mumbai. The purpose of this bridge is to connect two parts of Mumbai, Bandra and Worli. It spans the Mahim bay. This bridge was needed because there was bottleneck traffic going the other route so this cut the amount of traffic. This is a cable stay bridge. This bridge cost $400,000,000 or about 18 billion rupees. The Bandra-Worli Sea Link was made almost completely out of concrete. One of the challenges that engineers faced was that under the water the bridge spans are two very different and uneven types of rock. One type of rock was a softer volcanic rock and the other type was a hard dense rock. The engineers solved this problem by drilling until they were even. The Bandra-Worli Sea Link was built in nine years. The bridge is 5.6 kilometers long or about three miles. It is 126 meters tall and there is 20 meters of space under it.

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