As the Missing Link on the Mumbai-Pune expressway opens from May 1, making the travel faster and easier between the two major cities of the state, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) will have a new task in hand. This will entail widening the existing expressway from six lanes to 10 lanes to accommodate more vehicles, which are likely to rise after the opening of the Missing Link and the increase in operation of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. The Missing Link is a 13.3-km bypass from Khopoli to Kusgaon and enables skipping of the ghat of Lonavala-Khandala, which witnesses heavy traffic, increasing the travel time for 1.5 lakh vehicles every day between Pune and Mumbai . The eight-lane Missing Link is expected to reduce travel time by 30 minutes between the two important cities of Maharashtra — Pune and Mumbai — by six kilometres. It has two twin tunnels of 1.68 km and 8.87 km each, and a massive 650-metre-long cable-stayed bridge at a height of 182 metres.…