{"id":240595,"date":"2023-05-02T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240595"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:44:57","slug":"indias-1st-undersea-tunnels-to-open-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-1st-undersea-tunnels-to-open-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 1st undersea tunnels to open in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia\u2019s 1st undersea tunnels to open in November<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 2nd May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s first undersea twin tunnels in south Mumbai will soon be opened.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About India\u2019s First Undersea Twin Tunnel<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240596\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240596 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tunnels.jpg?resize=429%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Undersea Twin Tunnel\" width=\"429\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tunnels.jpg?w=727&amp;ssl=1 727w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tunnels.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a 2.07-kilometer-long tunnel being built in Mumbai, Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tunnels are part of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP) being built by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP)?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 10.58-kilometre Mumbai Coastal Road Project (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCRP<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) connects Marine Drive to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and during peak hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is expected to reduce the 45-minute commute from Girgaon to Worli to just 10 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project also highlights the usage of India&#8217;s largest-ever tunnel boring machine (TBM) called Mavala. This machine weighs over 1,700 tonnes and stands about 12 meters tall.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s 1st undersea tunnels to open in November\u201d published in Indian Express on 2nd May 2023 What is the News? India\u2019s first undersea twin tunnels in south Mumbai will soon be opened. About India\u2019s First Undersea Twin Tunnel It is a 2.07-kilometer-long tunnel being built in Mumbai,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-1st-undersea-tunnels-to-open-in-november\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s 1st undersea tunnels to open in November<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10500,11558],"class_list":["post-240595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-indian-express","tag-undersea-tunnels","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}