An apartment complex’s open gate at the junction of Dockyard Road and Gunpowder Road in Mazagaon has made the footpath inaccessible, forcing the kids who attend a nearby school and the elderly who come to pick them up to walk on the road, which sees heavy traffic throughout the day.

The gate in question opens up and blocks the entire width of the footpath, creating a barrier between the entrance of the building and the bank next door, in front of which visitors park their vehicles on the footpath. When this reporter visited the area on Monday evening, it was seen that kids leaving school had to manoeuvre around the parked vehicles at the bank and then the open gate to get to the footpath.