There will be no respite anytime soon for commuters plying on a bridge on SV Road in Malad that was declared dilapidated in 2019. Though two lanes, which officials refer to as access roads, were built on either side of the structure, they cannot be opened as several shops sit on their alignment. After mid-day highlighted the situation, on November 9, the ward office started the process of compensation to the shopkeepers, the procedure will take time as the file needs to be cleared at various levels in the BMC.

Swami Vivekananda Road or SV Road is a key road in the western suburbs. A 10-metre-wide nullah runs close to the Malad subway and then under the S V Road right in front of the Bata showroom near Sainath Road. While the width of SV Road is about 90 feet, it is reduced to 45 feet on the bridge above the nullah. The bridge was declared dilapidated in an audit which took place in 2019 right after the collapse of Himalaya foot overbridge at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. The BMC invited tenders and started reconstruction in December of that year but the bridge cannot be demolished and heavy vehicles are still plying on it.