It's been over two years since, architectural studio Mad(e) in Mumbai won the International Urban Design Competition called Rethinking Kala Nagar Traffic Junction that was organised by BMW Guggenheim Lab. The competition had invited architects and urban designers across the globe to address the junction’s complex traffic flow and explore ways to re-imagine its infrastructure with ideas that could be applied to other intersections throughout Mumbai. The studio’s plan, helmed by young architects Kalpit Ashar and Mayuri Sisodia, included a five-point that offers a solution to the junction’s endless traffic problems. “We had made a public presentation of the project to eminent Mumbaikars including the Joint Police Commissioner, traffic department, chief of transport, MMRDA, State Transport Commissioner, Government of Maharashtra, and many other eminent people. But there was no progress from the side of the authority towards implementation of the project,” recalls Ashar.

“Immediately after the results of the competition, we had also contacted the local MLA of the precinct, late Bala Sawant but without much success. We are very keen to collaborate with a government agency to not only implement our strategy for this project, but to also other traffic junctions in the city, that face similar problems,” he suggests.