The year begins on a truly happy note for thousands of Mumbaikars who risk their lives every single day trying to cross the busy highway near Mahanand Dairy in Goregaon East. A report in this paper has informed that the much-needed foot overbridge (FOB) on this stretch of the Western Urban Road may be thrown open to the public next month.

Significantly, work on this bridge began around two years ago, and that too, after multiple complaints from city pedestrians, who frequent the area. Records show that numerous people have been killed while they were trying to cross the busy junction between Vanrai police station and Bimbisar Nagar.