The excess load of utility wires was stated as one of the reasons behind last year's Gokhale bridge collapse. Almost a year after that, the BMC plans to take precautionary measures so that the incident is not repeated. Civic chief Praveen Pardeshi has instructed the bridges department to check the load of wires on bridges and shift them accordingly.

Western Railway had earlier written to the civic body asking them to consider limiting the weight of utility cables on bridges that cross over railway lines. They had also mentioned that prime facie the weight of over 60 wires on the pedestrian pathway of the Andheri bridge added up to the total weight and led to the collapse.