Here's a tip for ordinary mortals at their wits' end because of the rundown infrastructure of the city — invite an unsuspecting Very Very Important Person (read minister) to experience the same issues. Once this VVIP is put through the same hardship that hundreds of common people have to undergo on a daily basis, it acts like a foot on the accelerator, and that rundown infra may just get the attention and repair it's been begging for.

Yesterday, this paper reported the authorities immediately got into gear to overhaul the decrepit Khar subway after Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's entourage crawled through the chock-a-block traffic in the narrow subway. Put off by the experience, Prabhu directed his officials to reconstruct and expand the subway. The report stated that a feasibility study on the approach roads to the subway has already started.