The proposed Nariman Point-Kandivli coastal road has encountered resistance from Versova residents, who contend that the 33.5-km elevated freeway will pass right over their Nana-Nani Park in Seven Bungalows, resulting in the cutting of trees and digging up of jogging tracks and lawns for construction of the stilts (columns). The shrubs that survive, they say, will have to live under the shadow of the eight-lane highway. Senior citizens who use the park as a ‘lung’ told this paper that the prospect of their park being destroyed is giving them sleepless nights.

While one can understand that many groups will cite objections to the Coastal Road for different reasons, some valid and the others not so, it is important that every effort be made to save parks and trees whenever any development project is planned.