Spending hours to cover a one-kilometre-long stretch of road, which connects Kandivli Lokhandwala township to Thakur Village, towards the Western Express Highway, has been a daily ordeal for nearly 50,000 locals, who want the authorities to properly implement the Development Plan of 1991—which makes a provision for a 120-foot-wide road—or find an alternate solution to their daily woes. The construction of the road mentioned has been stalled for three years.

mid-day learnt of two tragic cases where families allege that the traffic on Akurli Road—which is 90 feet wide but beset on both sides by illegal encroachments—claimed the lives of their loved ones, who could not reach the hospital on time.