The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has cancelled its plan to construct a flyover at Andheri subway as part of a long-term solution to navigate the issue of waterlogging. The civic body had appointed a consultant in January to check the feasibility of the construction of the flyover to lift traffic off the subway, which gets waterlogged during the monsoon and is shut.

Why does it always flood?

The Andheri subway is prone to flooding because it lies in a low-lying catchment area of the Mogra nullah. Rainwater flows rapidly into the subway due to the area’s gradient. mid-day has reported about repeated instances of the subway being closed due to monsoon waterlogging, attributed to a bottleneck in Mogra nullah abutting the subway that leads to waterlogging.