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MID-DAY IMPACT: PWD starts rectification work on Aarey’s faulty CC roads
Repairs begin after mid-day exposes flaws in newly concreted stretches
26 March,2025 10:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
Mumbaikars battle rubble, ditches, and debris in BMC’s road revamp drive
With BMC’s manic assault on the city’s roads under the guise of concreting, Mumbai resembles a war zone these days. Mumbaikars, already traumatised by the city’s traffic, pollution, heat and infrastructure work, are now faced with riskily navigating either mounds of rubble from the scraped up roads or strips of walkways
26 March,2025 08:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
Mumbai concrete road works will be of top quality, IAS officer to oversee them
The Maharashtra government is committed to ensuring that no concrete road work in Mumbai is of substandard quality, Industries Minister Uday Samant said on Tuesday in the legislative council
25 March,2025 09:06 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Explore if BMC’s road work warrants EOW probe: Maharashtra Speaker
Amid concerns from leaders across parties about quality and work delays, Mumbai’s legislators will meet on Monday to discuss issue
22 March,2025 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Sanjeev Shivadekar
Now, cracks surface on three-year-old Lokhandwala concrete roads in Mumbai
Following a report on cracked concrete roads in Andheri and Juhu, residents flag more spots in western suburbs. When mid-day visited this stretch on Sunday afternoon, several minor cracks were visible. At one spot, the road surface was uneven
17 March,2025 09:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
Why is Mumbai all cracked up?
Cement concrete roads across the city have been developing fissures within months of being completed; experts say correct process not followed; BMC says it will look into it
12 March,2025 10:06 AM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
NH48 repair mess: Dark flyovers, uneven roads put motorists at risk
Uneven surfaces, unlit bridges are just one half of problem; IIT-Bombay now roped in to conduct load study to check if concreting of bridges has made them unsafe. “It is true that many streetlights are not working. This is due to underground cables that were damaged by various agencies working along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway
31 January,2025 12:32 PM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
BMC aiming to open Malabar Hill road by mid-December
Earlier, the plan was to get the road, shut since August 2020, ready for traffic by next monsoon; BMC also mulling to concretise the road if its conditions allow, awaits a test report
25 October,2022 08:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale