Vasai Creek Bridge

Vasai Creek Bridge is a 1.5 km eight-lane access-controlled bridge across the Vasai Creek (a tidal estuary north of Mumbai) — replacing the colonial-era 1928-built four-lane bridge that had been a notorious bottleneck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway corridor for decades. NHAI executed the new bridge between 2017 and 2020 at ₹850 crore as part of the broader NH-48 capacity-augmentation programme.

The new bridge runs immediately parallel to the old one, with the central 200 m cable-stayed section providing navigation clearance for fishing boats and small coastal vessels. The PSC viaduct approaches were built on bored cast-in-situ piles 30 m through marine clay to basaltic rock.

The bridge has dramatically reduced the chronic Mumbai-Vasai-Virar-Surat traffic congestion that had plagued the corridor — particularly during truck-heavy night shifts. The old four-lane bridge has been retained for local traffic + emergency access.

The Vasai Creek Bridge is also significant as the northern terminus of MMRDA's Mumbai Metropolitan Region land-acquisition push — beyond Vasai, the alignment is increasingly suburban/peri-urban rather than truly metropolitan.