One hundred and seventy feet below the Lonavala Lake bed, construction crews worked in near-impossible conditions to ensure the tunnel above would not disturb the water table above it. The precision required was extraordinary even by global standards.
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The Tiger Valley cable-stayed bridge soars 170 to 180 metres above the valley floor — roughly the height of a 55-storey building — and was designed to withstand the ferocious wind loads the Sahyadris throw at the Western Ghats every monsoon season.
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At 13.3 kilometres, the Missing Link corridor replaces one of India’s most dreaded road stretches — not with a wider version of the same ghat nightmare, but with tunnels, viaducts and bridges that cut through the mountain rather than crawl over it.
