The pending work of the SV Road bridge at Malad is almost complete and both lanes have been opened up for traffic after four years. The work for the alignment of sideways will take another 15 days. However, while the work has been completed, a few owners of structures that were removed to widen the road haven’t received satisfactory compensation yet.

Swami Vivekananda (SV) Road is a key road that connects all the railway stations on the western line. The road sees a large amount of traffic flow and it wouldn’t seem feasible to close it to reconstruct the old bridge. Meanwhile, the bridge was declared dilapidated in 2019 after a structural audit and work began to reconstruct it. The bridge runs over a 10-metre-wide nullah. The width of SV Road is around 90 feet, the old bridge was 45 feet wide. With the construction of the new lanes on either side of the old bridge completed around June 2022, the bridge is now 90 feet wide. There were 16 shops on the right side of the road [towards Dahisar] which needed to be demolished. The size of shops on the opposite side needed to be reduced by around 6 to 7 feet.