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Mumbai: ‘Where are Delisle bridge footpaths?’

Locals fume, but BMC says no footpaths needed as there are provisions to access service roads beside the flyover

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Aaditya Thackeray has written to authorities asking them to provide the same facilities as earlier bridge as the new one has no provision for footpaths. Pic/Ashish Raje

Aaditya Thackeray has written to authorities asking them to provide the same facilities as earlier bridge as the new one has no provision for footpaths. Pic/Ashish Raje

The new Delisle Bridge outside Lower Parel station, which is currently in the final stages of reconstruction, doesn't have any footpaths, leaving residents and commuters fuming. Shiv Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray took up the issue with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) but the administration responded to his letter saying no footpaths are required on the ramp.

The bridge was closed for traffic overnight in August 2018, following a structural stability report submitted by IIT-Bombay, submitted after a portion of the Gokhale Bridge at Andheri collapsed on the railway tracks. However, the civic body decided to keep the bridge open for pedestrians till its demolition as there were thousands of commuters who used the bridge to reach the station area. Now, five years on with the bridge almost complete, commuters have realised there will be no footpaths on the bridge.

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