Professor Patrick Geddes wrote in his Note on Bandra, a document currently housed at the Maharashtra State Archives in Kala Ghoda: ‘The entrance to this town [Bandra] from the Causeway [today’s Mahim Causeway] is quite insufficient, since it is also the exit and entrance gate of Bombay. Widening to 80 feet is desirable…’

Anyone who has been stuck in a jam at St Michael’s Church junction would realise that Geddes saw the future before it unfolded, foreseeing the challenges of colonial India’s fast-growing urban centres as far back as a century ago.