A car and taxi collided inside a tunnel on Mumbai’s Coastal Road on Tuesday evening, causing major traffic congestion on the Nariman Point-Worli route. The accident, reported around 4:30 pm, led to long queues as traffic police and BMC teams worked to clear the damaged vehicles

The 17-year-old Bandra Worli Sea Link surface has never seen a pothole while some newly laid Mumbai roads can’t even handle a week of rain. mid-day takes a looks at what goes into the city’s road — and what happens to it after it is built