It took two hours for Justice Vidyasagar Kanade to reach Borivli from his south Mumbai home one day and the back-breaking journey left him in agony for a week, thanks to the city’s infamous potholes and waterlogged roads. The senior judge brought this up in two separate hearings at the Bombay High Court yesterday.

In the first instance, the case wasn’t even related to roads. Justices Kanade and Mahesh Sonak were hearing a petition filed against construction near the IMD’s Doppler radar in Colaba as it creates hindrance in the path of the radar. When senior counsel SU Kamdar rose to present BMC’s defence in the case, Justice Kanade said, “The condition in the city is getting worse day by day. Earlier it was just waterlogging, but nowadays the problem of potholes has increased.” The Doppler hearing continued after Kamdar replied that the civic body was trying to tackle the pothole issue.