For green activists, it is only a partial triumph that the government will now try to build the car depot for Metro Line III at Kanjurmarg instead of chopping 2,298 trees in Aarey Colony.

Environmentalists are upset that the state is now considering a smaller stabling yard within Aarey, which will come up at the cost of about 500 trees and potentially threaten wildlife. Instead they want the authorities to build it at the MMRDA ground in Bandra-Kurla Complex.