Mumbai's bridge woes took on another dimension on Wednesday morning, with the Grant Road bridge, called Frere bridge, shut to traffic as soon as authorities were alerted to cracks on it. Incidentally, all is well now and the bridge was opened to traffic late last evening.

The chain of events though was set in motion on Tuesday night when Malabar Hill resident and well-known anti-mobile tower radiation activist, Prakash Munshi, received a message from a friend about cracks on the bridge. Munshi said, "In the past few days there have been several alarmist WhatsApp and unverified messages about public infrastructure, but this seemed genuine."