Motorists using the Bandra Worli sea link have been faced with a nightmare in the last few days owing to heavy traffic jams on the road leading to the sea link on the Bandra side. The Lights Festival, a part of the Neighbourhood Winter Festival organised by BJP MLA Ashish Shelar at the Reclamation Promenade, has been creating huge traffic snarls right up to the Bandra railway bridge as motorists stop to gawk at the lights.

Sources at Bandra traffic division told mid-day that the colourful lightings are so appealing and that "is the prime reason for a mass gathering at the spot". The officer added, "The authorities should have made proper arrangements for parking vehicles as the visual causes motorists to stop in the No Halting Zone to take pictures. Motorists going towards Worli from Bandra using the sea link end up crawling at snails' pace due to the crowd and haphazard parking of vehicles on the busy stretch."