Motorists travelling via the arterial Western Express Highway should brace themselves for heavy traffic, as the work of removing debris and loose boulders at the landslide site near Kandivli will take few more days. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is taking the help of experts from IIT-Bombay to remove the loose boulders and soil.

A senior MMRDA official said, "After removing the debris from the landslide site in Kandivli, we had opened the two south-bound lanes of the highway, but while removing the boulders and loose soil we realised few more boulders and soil in the section are loose and might come down. In order to prevent any mishap we have closed two lanes of the south-bound carriageway once again, and the south-bound traffic has been diverted via the two lanes of the north-bound carriageway of the WEH between Malad and Kandivli."