May 2025 saw mid-day’s intervention hasten concreting work in Andheri, clear out khataras from under a bridge, ensure work on a vital foot bridge got started in Bandra, got the Kalwa carshed barricaded to ensure fairness and returned a Kurla playground to kids that had been taken over for a mela
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
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