More trees are likely to fall to the already contentious Coastal Road. Activists have learnt that that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has tweaked its initial plans, making this necessary.

They say the number of trees likely to be affected in this project will go beyond the civic body's earlier claim of 500, and could now even touch 1,000, a front page report in this paper stated. Activists have pointed to an inquiry that has revealed more trees are to be cut. It is always important for the authorities to be transparent when it comes to such projects. State upfront the number of trees which would be affected before the project takes off and also let the public know about the scale of the ecological sacrifice the city will have to make for the development.