It was a feel-good Tuesday for readers yesterday, as newspapers highlighted the city’s first successful heart transplant. A donated heart was flown in from Pune and rushed 20 km to a hospital in the central suburb of Mulund along a ‘green corridor’ created to bypass the peak hour traffic.

Mumbaikars seemed captivated not just by the story of a heart, having come from another town to save the life of a 22-year-old man here, but the fact that the heart could reach the patient in time. The heart reached Mulund’s Fortis Hospital from Santacruz a distance of 20 km in an astonishing 18 minutes. In a city where commuting is a hot-button topic, it is the 18-minute commute that has us slack-jawed in admiration.