Mid-Day’s intervention speeds up Mumbai projects, reclaims public space

Pics/Ashish Raje and Nimesh Dave

Original: Team mid-day's report ‘Here's why Mumbai has road rage!' on May 24 on the how a week before deadline most dug up roads were not even half finished

Impact: Within two days, BMC starts fixing the Andheri stretch as our report ‘mid-day spurs BMC into action' states on May 27

Original: mid-day highlighted the dangers for train commuters in Kalwa in its report ‘Commute to hell' on February 16

Impact: Two months later, CR shut off Kalwa car shed to prevent people from getting from in there and causing overcrowding

Original: On May 26, mid-day reported about used cars dumped under the year-old Teli Galli flyover

Impact: On May 28, mid-day reported about the entire area cleaned up in ‘Khatara clean-up'

Original: mid-day mooted a foot bridge to connect Bandra station to Bandra Terminus in its Oct 31, 2024 report

Impact: Six months later, work started - ‘R28.03 cr for ‘missing link' between Bandra station and terminus'

Original: On May 2, mid-day reported that a kids' playground had been illegally taken over for a local fair ‘From kids' playground to illegal fairground'

Impact: Within a day, officials had shut down the mela - ‘Now that's fair! Mela at park taken down', May 4