Motorists and pedestrians using a busy pothole-ridden 500-metre stretch under the Metro line on JP Road, below the Versova Metro station risk their lives daily, thanks to defunct streetlights on the stretch.

A prominent report in the paper drew attention to the trepidation those passing through the dark patches feel as they negotiate the stretch. Post that report, work began in a few hours, to reinstall the streetlights indicating that there can be quick action, when there is will.