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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
Mulund's rumble trouble ends after Mid-day's nudge
BMC removes noisy strips on road outside housing complex after residents complain of sleepless nights. The paper had earlier reported that five rumble strips installed along a 200-metre stretch near the MHADA signal were disturbing residents. Despite multiple complaints from 20 societies to various authorities, no action was taken
26 March,2025 10:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Apoorva Agashe
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
Aaditya Thackeray demands EOW probe into alleged Mumbai road scam
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray has written to Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, urging an Economic Offences Wing (EOW) investigation into the alleged 2023-24 road construction scam. He claims that despite tenders worth Rs 6,000 crore being floated, roadwork progress remains negligible.
23 March,2025 09:22 AM IST | Mumbai
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
Speaker asks if probe is needed into the cement concretisation work in Mumbai
On Friday, Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from both the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) raised concerns over the inferior quality of roads and the delays in the ongoing cement concretisation of roadworks across the city
21 March,2025 02:38 PM 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
'Engineers must be present on site during roadworks in Mumbai'
The ongoing cement concreting works are currently at a midpoint stage. Senior officials from the municipal corporation, along with experts from IIT-Bombay and representatives from the Quality Monitoring Agency (QMA), have been visiting the sites where the concretisation work is underway
14 March,2025 01:42 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
BMC cracks down on footpath ramps to prioritise pedestrians
Civic body enforces ‘pedestrian-first’ policy, bars ramps obstructing walkability. Upon further investigation, mid-day found that the BMC is now strictly enforcing its “pedestrian-first” policy. Once the road, drains, and footpaths are completed, no ramps obstructing walkability will be permitted
10 March,2025 07:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve