First look of Ahmedabad’s newest and costliest river bridge(VIDEO)

The city of Ahmedabad will get its yet another new Vadaj-Dudheshwar river bridge over river Sabarmati on 12th of April. One lane of new bridge is unofficially opened for last one week and public has started using it. Another lane is closed by barricades.

The new bridge will ease traffic over Gandhi bridge(Income Tax-Shahpur), Subhash bridge(Shahibag-RTO) and Chandrabhaga bridge(Gandhi Ashram-Vadaj bus stand). While bridge’s western end will meet Vadaj bus-stand cross roads, the eastern side of the bridge will go towards two roads in ‘Y’ shape; one to Shahpur(with BRTS lane) and other to Shahibag. For those wanting to reach Ashram road from Ahmedabad airport, this bridge is one more option.

The bridge that was sanctioned for 31.39 crore will cost in 48.74 crore to Ahmedabad’s people. Thus this would be the costliest ever bridge constructed in the history of Ahmedabad. It was supposed to be completed in 2007.

With this new yet-to-be-named bridge, the city of Ahmedabad is now having nine main bridges

Shastri bridge(Vishala hotel-Narol)
Ambedkar bridge(Vasna-Danilimda)
Sardar bridge(Paldi-Jamalpur)
Swami Vivekanand bridge aka Ellise bridge(Town hall-Tilak bag)
Naheru bridge(Patang hotel-Rupali)
Gandhi bridge(Income Tax circle-Shahpur)
Vadaj Dudheshwar bridge
Chandrabhaga bridge(Vadaj-Gandhi Ashram)
Subhash bridge(RTO-Shahibag)
Indira bridge(Hansol-Bhat)
+ Two river bridges over ring road.